Re: NetBSD on DECsystem 5000/240

On 2024-01-21 04:18, Magnus Lindholm wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> During the weekend I powered up an old DECsystem 5000/240 and decided
> to try installing NetBSD. At first I tried 9.3 using the diskimage
> installation. This failed in a kernel panic, Older versions like 5.2.3
> which worked fine, however 6.1.5 failed in a kernel panic similar to
> 9.3. Finally I installed 10.0_RC3 which worked fine! So at least if
> you're a PMAX owner NetBSD 10.0 seems to work better than previous
> releases, at least as far as the installation goes.
>
> Anyway, not sure if this is relevant to this mailing list, but I
> figured I'd let others know, being a bit unsure how many
> NetBSD/pmax:ers still are out there.
>
> Magnus

Funny that you asked :)

Just yesterday I was looking at my 5000/240 and wondering, if the bigger 
graphics options were ever supported,

(i860 anyone?) or even anybody tried.