28 Apr
2021
28 Apr
'21
6:33 p.m.
The support just plain isn't there. There isn't anything in src/sys/vax
for any 4000 machine, there isn't LANCE ethernet support in src/sys/vaxif,
I don't see any mention of any 53C* SCSI controllers anywhere in the source
tree, etc. As Hans said, you're stuck with the older big iron and the
older MicroVAXes. Heck, even adding support for the 4000/200 (still a pure
Q-Bus machine) looks like it would be a fair amount of work.
-Henry
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 12:23, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Henry - any idea is you add: cpu
"VAX4000"
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 12:17 PM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 12:01, Hans Rosenfeld
<
rosenfeld(a)grumpf.hope-2000.org> wrote:
Are you sure that 4.3BSD Quasijarus supports running on a 4000VLC, or
utilizing SCSI devices? Last time I looked it didn't support anything
newer than the pure QBus MicroVAXen and VAXstations, and the only SCSI
devices supported were those on MSCP-to-SCSI controllers.
Indeed, on Quasijarus the GENERIC config file only supports (see
https://github.com/abs0/4.3BSD-Quasijarus/blob/main/sys/conf/GENERIC.vax
):
cpu "VAX8600"
cpu "VAX8200"
cpu "VAX780"
cpu "VAX750"
cpu "VAX730"
cpu "VAX630"
cpu "VAX650"
I think the only Unix to ever support the VLC was NetBSD, or maybe some
versions of OpenBSD did too?
-Henry