--- "R.o.s.s  H.a.r.v.e.y" <ross@ghs.com> wrote:
> 	1. Write a replacement console containing the old
> distributable
> 	palcode and boot that via ARC, then NetBSD via the
> replacement
> 	console. 

Perhaps the SRM emulator from the recently-materialized FreeVMS
project might help? It is currently for x86, but might be worth
looking at:

http://freevms.free.fr/indexGB.html

=====
Ed Wensell III
http://www.geocities.com/ewensell3

perl -ne'chomp;$a.=pack"h*",$_;END{print"\n$a\n\n"}'<<RM
6427f6a756e6022616c6c63702c65616675602269676765627022627
5796375637e2a0
RM

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