Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!purdue!umd5!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: 4.3 on VAX 8xxx? Message-ID: <10284@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 21 Jan 88 17:51:22 GMT References: <4350002@wdl1.UUCP> <3007@zeus.TEK.COM> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 51 >In article <4350002@wdl1.UUCP> bobw@wdl1.UUCP (Robert Lee Wilson Jr.) writes: >>We run 4.3 on a badly overloaded Vax 11/780. In planning an upgrade we >>confront a statement that Vax 8xxx machines don't/won't have BSD family >>Unix available. In article <3007@zeus.TEK.COM> rogers@amadeus.TEK.COM (Roger Southwick (rogers@dadla.TEK.COM)) writes: [why two addreses in one `From' line?] >I know that 4.3 will not run on an 8XXX machines, Correct. >and have heard that 4.4 (now in Beta Test) WILL run on 8XXX machines. No. The next release (which might be called the Tahoe release, or might be 4.3a [though IBM has used that name already], but probably will not be called 4.4) will run on CCI/Harris/ `Tahoe' machines (includes the CCI Power 6/32 and the Harris HCX-7, if I remember all the right words). It *may* run on Vax 8200 and 8250s; I ported 4.3 to the 8250 when we exchanged two 750s for 8250s several months ago, and I am trying to get that code integrated with the release version (I did it once but with a later version: arrgh) before it goes out. I say 8200, not 8XXX, because the other 8000 series machines are different. One important feature ( :-) ) of the 8200 series is that it has only one BI bus. Otherwise you will have to re-rework autoconf, something I intend to do anyway, but possibly the second trickiest part of the whole deal. The only BI drivers I have as yet are for the DWBUA (Unibus) and the KDB50. (This leaves those with KLESIs and DMB32s ... `unsatisfied?' ... `holding the dirty end of the stick?') I have DEBNAs on both machines but still need to figure out the BI Vax Port protocol or get some documentation from somewhere; since we have DEUNAs on the BUAs it has not been important (and since one of the CDC disks on one machine is dying and Emulex does not have EVM working on the 82xx yet, I have to disassemble and rewrite their formatter first anyway---they refuse to sell source in any form, even though it is there in the object anyway, if you just look at it right. What a waste. But I digress...). Those who are desperate and hold a 4.3 source license can talk to me (and/or hire me at exorbitant consultant rates :-) ) to get 4.3BSD for the 8200, or any other Vax, as long as I have one to play with. (Want 4.3 on the 8700? Give *me* one :-) .) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris