[rescue] Vaxstation 4000 96

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Fri Jan 25 07:31:48 CST 2002


> You can put OpenVMS on it, that is the OS that this machine was made for.
> But I tend to expand VMS to Very Much Strange. I am afraid, that I never
> will get "warm" with this "strange", but _very_ powerfull OS.
> And ``Of course it runs NetBSD.'' if you like a *ix environment.
> Unfortunately NetBSD does not support the graphics hardware, even
> no text mode console on the local display. You have to use serial 
> console via this strange MMJ port...

I seem to recall that NetBSD can corrupt the firmware on the
VAXstation 4000/9x systems.
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