[rescue] DECstation 5000

Mon Jul 15 20:16:50 CDT 2002

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:09:30PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On July 15, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> > > So what can these things run if not ultrix?  I have a couple of 5000
> > > /200's and a 3100 awaiting rehab, and have been letting them gather dust
> > > lacking any media or docs.  If it is possible to get a NetBSD or Linux
> > > working on them perhaps they are worth the time to fool with.
> > 
> > I haven't looked in a while, but from what I understand NetBSD has
> > supported them for quite some time.
> 
>   Bigtime, yes.  I first ran NetBSD/pmax in like 1995 or something.
> It was quite stable even then.  I haven't run it in a while, but I'm
> told that even the machine-independant SCSI subsystem is working on
> the pmax port.

How easy is it to find RAM for these boxes?  I have one without any RAM.

./patrick