NetBSD/VAX

NetBSD/VAX is the port of NetBSD to DEC VAX computers. It currently supports many different VAX CPUs, see below. There are a bunch of different people working on the port.

The History of NetBSD/VAX

The port started in February 1994 when members of Ludd, the computer society at Luleå University (Luleå Tekniska Högskola), in Sweden wanted to run another operating system than ULTRIX on the VAX machines we had recently acquired. For this purpose, two old VAX 11/750 were started and are even today used in the development of NetBSD/VAX.

The VAX port started (approximately) with NetBSD 0.9 source code, but is now merged with the NetBSD-current distribution.

Anders Magnusson is the maintainer of NetBSD/VAX.

NetBSD/VAX FAQ

There is a NetBSD/VAX FAQ maintained by Gunnar Helliesen.

Supported Hardware

Hardware supported by NetBSD/VAX includes (but may not be limited to):

CPU

Networking

Serial lines

Disks

Tapes

Only relevant files from old Berkeley VAX distributions are included in the source. If you want to look at other files, get them from your nearest ftp site with a 4.4BSD-Lite distribution, or from ftp://ftp.luth.se:/pub/OS/4.4BSD_Lite/.

Major items often asked about, but not yet supported include:

More information

What more is there to know? We think we have most the hardware and manuals we need. More are always welcome, though. Apart from that, Ragge needs more time. All donations are accepted.


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