Subject: Re: VS2000 NetBSD port
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@interpath.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/16/1996 00:09:23
At 09:10 PM 6/15/96 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>On June 16, you wrote:
>> > It'd also be nice to pick up a VS2000 at a hamfest for fifty bucks
>> > and turn it into a light-duty, lunchbox-sized web server with NetBSD.
>> They're so small... I could stack 5 of them under my desk :)
>
> Yup! Their chief limitation (in my opinion) is the fact that you
>can't put much disk in them. For limited applications, 12mb of RAM in
>a VAX is ok (especially considering the 1 MIPS CPU in the VS2000) but
>the tiny disk is a problem.
>
Imagine root on nfs, swap on sd0b? I imagine 70mb of swap should be
sufficient for a 1 MIPS machine.
I personally have 3 MicroVAX-II machines sitting here in pieces because I
don't see much point in messing with machines I don't have drives for.
Now, if I could net-boot these things, perhaps I could get this 8-bit color
graphics card working....
Then again, David Case's 3100's for $75 sounds pretty good.....
Hmmmmm.
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