Re: Regarding the ULTRIX and OSF1 compats

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Sat, 16 Mar 2019 12:49:07 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.pmax,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Mar 16, 2019, at 11:09 AM, Jonathan Stone <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>=20
> Testing is a real issue.  Anyone want to host a pmax or three?    I =
could be persuaded to fire one up for specific testing, but it'll take a =
couple of weekends, maybe more. (It's been years since I had thinwire =
(BNC) connectivity)

Gxemul actually does a pretty good job, and is used by NetBSD releng to =
do daily automated regression testing.

Although your comment about the practically of actually using one of =
these machines is telling ... yah, I don't have any networking gear that =
can connect to 10base2 anymore, either.  And for those folks with =
10base5, I recall the transceivers to adapt that to 10baseT were quite =
expensive even when they were common.

-- thorpej