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bobkeys at weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu writes:

>Well, I had U45 up and running until last night, on one of my dinsoaurs,
>and another has U32m, still, which is a tiny little BSD suite.  But,
>the later BSD's are much better, if you don't need to run X on the VAX.
>On a lark, last night, I made an OpenBSD VAX boot floppy (Yes folks, 
>OBSD does have a real VAX boot floppy that works!), and loaded up OpenBSD
>2.8+ VAX (the last snapshot in the archives, cuz 2.8 release is still a
>bit buggy).  That came up and running quite well, and actually a bit
>faster than NetBSD (which has gone to slow style rc.d boot gobbledygook).

Ooooo - I didn't realize OpenBSD was working on the VAX port. I'll wait
for that.  If nothing else, keeping everything running one dialect
of BSD makes life easier...

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