Subject: Re: VS2000
To: Wintermute <mute@wintermute.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/08/1996 03:07:56
On October 8, you wrote:
> I saw that uVAX 2000 was almost fully supported. Is this the same machine
> as the VS2000 (VS410-BA)? I know that as of last spring the VS2000 was
> not supported. I have two of these guys and it would be cool to be
> running netBSD on them. If not is it possible to run ULTRIX on them?
> Someone told me that he thought they only ran VMS (yuck).
The MicroVAX-2000 and the VAXstation-2000 are basically the same
machine. The MicroVAX-2000 is jumper-configured to disable the
onboard mono frame buffer.
It is indeed possible to run Ultrix on them. There's nothing that
weird about the machine. I've run Ultrix on many a '2000.
-Dave McGuire