You're right, and there never was a frame buffer on an 11/780 as far as I 
know. So its unfair to say "completely unsupported" however it would be 
more useful to note that X is not supported on any VAX platform and the 
4sK90's boot prom is at risk.

Being able to boot a machine into NetBSD is fun and often informative, but 
if someone had been booting NetBSD on a SPARCStation or a PC or even a MAC 
or an Amiga, they might be surprised in a negative way about what does and 
what doesn't work on the VAX. It would be useful if the web page reflected 
the limitations of the system on this platform.

--Chuck


At 12:18 AM 3/11/02 -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> >> [...VS4k PROM issues...]
> > This and the fact that there is no supported frame buffers for X
> > actually makes the "reality" that no VAX platform is fully supported
> > by NetBSD.
>
>I don't see how you get from the one to the other.
>
>I've got a MicroVAX-II that is, as far as I can tell, fully supported.
>It's not a VS4k, so the PROM issue doesn't apply, and it's got no
>framebuffer, so the framebuffer issue doesn't apply.  How is it less
>than fully supported?
>
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