Re: Support for 800s machines?

Chris Amthor <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hp700
Message-ID <[email protected]>
paul,

Paul Weissmann <[email protected]> wrote:

[...]

> Some functionality however was taken over from other, more obscure
> 800s servers and was implemented via devices attached to the HP-PB
> bus.

Probably a silly question, but what is the HP-PB bus?

[...]

> This means that eg the SCSI controller is not supported (by any
> open-source OS), which renders a server quite useless.

Oh. Umhh. So I'm stuck to HP-UX on this machine?

> The ethernet and console should work though.

So I can use it as a terminal, what is totally useless since I have to
attach a terminal to use it as one...

cheers,
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