Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:13:55 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Chris Knight <chris@e-easy.com.au> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEC 3000/700? Message-ID: <20030417131355.GA64013@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <06b201c3047b$3c914df0$020aa8c0@aims.private> References: <16029.20653.825553.510122@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <06b201c3047b$3c914df0$020aa8c0@aims.private>
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:49:42AM +1000, Chris Knight wrote: > > > AFAIK TurboChannel support is not available in FreeBSD 5.0, but it > > > seems to be available in 4.8-RELEASE. But it was not tested at all for 4.8 so... > Didn't think to check the 4.8 Hardware docs - I'd assumed that 5.0 > would have been more complete. 5- dropped support for DEC3000 altogether. > > It was never very complete because there are no SCSI or display > > drivers. A long time ago SCSI worked on DEC3000 IIRC (pre-CAM era). If you want to run this box go for NetBSD. > > Unless you have the urge to port a SCSI driver from NetBSD, don't buy > > this to run FreeBSD You don't want to *buy* a DEC3000 anyway. By now they should be free from your neighbourhood dumpster. They are neat pieces of engineering, built like a tank etc. But just completely obsolete by now. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte
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