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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BSD4.3 available for VAX 8200/8300?
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Date: Sun, 30-Aug-87 13:01:17 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 30 13:01:17 1987
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In article <183@ksr.UUCP> dudek@ubglue.ksr.com (Glen Dudek) writes:
>Has anyone ported 4.2/4.3BSD to the VAX 8200

Yes.  (Well, it *runs*; I expect it to change, possibly radically,
after I read some real hardware manuals.  For instance, one Vax is
crashing with machine check 10, BI bus error, on occasion, while
trying to read its DEUNA....)

>or (preferably) the VAX 8300?

No (at least, not I).

>I remember hearing at the Atlanta Usenix that CMU (Mach group)
>ported 4.3BSD to the VAX 8200, and gave the changes to Berkeley,

Approximately.  I am not sure of the details (and would rather stay
unsure :-) ).

>Do these changes depend on having an Ultrix source license?

I cannot speak for CMU, but I intend that mine will not.  (I have
managed not to look at DEC's DEBNT driver for a while; now if only
that Interlan holds up on the 8600 until I get those manuals. . . .)
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