Re: alpha & pmax hardware for migrating from XFree86 to Xorg

[Michael Kronsteiner <alphamike%gmx.at@localhost>]

I have sent 2 fast vaxes (4000/90A and a 4000/96) some time ago to a guy
named "blaz antonic" who did some work on the framebuffer drivers for
*BSD

I still own a few TURBOchannel alphas (mainly the whole DEC3000
series, /300, /600, /500) and a 2 dec 5000/200 (pmax) machines, and
would like to help... unfortunately i live in central europe, austria.

the /600 has a beefy 192mb RAM, and might be a nice developer machine...
the /500 is way to heavy to ship anywhere, and i want to keep
the /300... but im open for requests... and as i have "connections" i
can maybe organize further TC machines if desired.

I also still have a "2 turbochannels in use" PXG+ or so, and will
happily support any developer.



> One case would be TURBOchannel based machines, which affects three ports:
> - alpha. Xorg drivers have already been written for PCI based
> machines, but the port cannot cut across due to the lack of Xorg
> drivers for TC (I'm going to wave my hands about EISA)
> - pmax. Pretty much all graphics hardware is TC via cards or onboard
> - vax. The VS4000/60 & 90 had optional TC adaptors. Not common, but
> there were some
> 
> Michael Lorenz <macallan1888%gmail.com@localhost> has written more than a few 
> X
> TURBOchannel for NetBSD, and has offered as time permits to look at
> adding new or porting Xfree86 drivers to Xorg for TC based alpha &
> pmax machines, but he lacks the hardware.
> 
> so... all we need would be people with spare (not overly large :) TC
> machines and or graphics cards they would be willing to ship across to
> him in eastern TN.
> 
> I would be more than happy to help with postage in some cases, as I'm
> sure would others.