Re: Introduction

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 04:46:21PM -0500, Richard Snow wrote:
> New to the list.  I am acquiring a Vaxstation 3100 soon, and I plan to 
> run NetBSD on it.  I will  use an NFS mount for at least some of its 

It sounds like you may have wanted [email protected].

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> 
> I don't want to start a religious war by mentioning Linux, NetBSD, or 
> OpenBSD all in the same message, I am just trying what I was told will 
> work for this vax.  

Either NetBSD or OpenBSD will work. Linux is getting there, but still
needs to flesh out their support in a lot of areas.

> 
> Eventually I would like to learn how to do some assembly-level stuff on 
> the vax.  Since I
> don't already know any Vax assembler I suppose it will be easy to adapt 
> to the one already
> in the toolchain.  

Cool. The best online reference is probably the VAX MACRO manual at:

  http://www.openvms.compaq.com:8000/72final/4515/4515pro_contents.html

Or pick up a used VARM off ebay or amazon.

/Hugh

> 
> Richard Snow
> [email protected]