Re: Yes, NetBSD still boots on pretty ancient Alphas...

[email protected] Thu, 8 Jul 2021 20:30:20 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Alas, I don't have an TC systems, but I recently got my hands on an 
> AXPpci33, and it still boots and runs:
>
> 	https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=6150

Congratulations on getting some good hardware :D

> (Rooting on NFS over a DE204 for now, because I want to image off the 
> VMS install on the SCSI disk before I nuke-and-pave over it... hoooo boy 
> is that painfully slow!)

I imaged a 22 gig 5.25" SCSI disk using a Mac LC III with m68030. Yes, 
patience is required.

BTW - the recent alignment changes seem to have fixed building of 
php80-iconv, which had previously been failing consistently with pkgsrc m4 
dumping core :)

John