[rescue] Dec PWS 500a

[Dave McGuire]

On August 25, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >   It will likely *never* support the cool video hardware, though...not
> > enough documentation available.
> 
> Just like "any OS other than IRIX" on the Indigo R3000s - we had a TON of them

  Yup.

> at COMCO that I would have LOVED to put NetBSD on and used for something 
> good - but all we had was IRIX 5.3 and I retired any machines running that
> as soon as possible.  (this was '98, and they still had some machines running
> IRIX 4.x!!!)

  Christ, 4.x?  Are you serious?  I remember upgrading from 3.2 to 4.0
on a couple of 4D/25Gs when I worked at TRW S&D back in 1991.

> When I inquired, I always got the response "Not enough documentation to do a
> port". 8-(

  Well, port to the system, sure...but likely not that video
hardware. :-(

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD