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From: arnold@emory.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC})
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Subject: Re: Mach on the Microvax II, Vaxstation 2000 and Sun 3/50
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The following "solution" requires lots and lots of source code licenses,
but as Jordan is at a university, he should be able to afford them. It
also will require some work on his part.

Sun 3/50:
	Leave it alone. SunOS 4.0 will be nifty.

Microvax II:
	Get Mt. Xinu's 4.3 + NFS product. They will supply bootable media 
	for the uVax.  The X distribution has a QVSS driver. Authoritative
	rumor has it that X 11 will have the QDSS driver as well. Meanwhile
	the Ultrix QDSS driver can be made to work with Mt. Xinu's system.

Vaxstation 2000:
	Start with Mt. Xinu's product and steal code from Ultrix 2.0 until
	it all works. Ultrix can be used as a bootstrap vehicle, i.e. for
	rcp-ing over the new kernal binary.

An interesting alternative: Sun ships a "vax" directory with their source
code, try config-ing SunOS to run on a vax. You may have to steal some
uVax stuff out of 4.3. It should still be doable, though. This will be a
particularly interesting project when SunOS 4.0 comes out. (Sun, of course,
will not even talk to you if you try this and it doesn't work and you want
help; they only support their own hardware.)

I really like the Mt. Xinu product, myself. Full 4.3. Full NFS. The NFS
stuff looks just like it does on a Sun; they ship the Sun documentation
for how to use NFS. They seem to be the only ones right now shipping
NFS 3.2 which supports file locking across the network; everyone else is
still back at 3.0.

Hope this helps!

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Arnold Robbins
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