Annotation of www/pmax.html, Revision 1.50
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14: <p>
15: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/pmax</font></h2>
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1.34 miod 19: <p>
1.44 miod 20: OpenBSD/pmax used to run on a large set of the Digital MIPS-based DECstation and
1.37 nick 21: DECserver family. These machines were the counterpart of the <a
1.34 miod 22: href="vax.html">VAX-based VAXstations</a>,
23: until the <a href="alpha.html">Alpha</a> line was ready.
1.50 ! deraadt 24: <p>
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1.46 deraadt 26: <strong>The OpenBSD/pmax port was discontinued after the 2.7 release.</strong>
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1.34 miod 31: <a name="history"></a>
32: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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1.34 miod 34: <p>
35: The pmax port of OpenBSD was started by Thomas Graichen shortly before the
36: OpenBSD 2.0 release, based on the NetBSD/pmax sources. It was then slowly
37: brought in shape, becoming self-hosted, and moving to ECOFF, then ELF
38: binaries.
39: </p>
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42: A few releases later, Thomas Graichen stopped working on this port, and
43: nobody stepped in. The port was slowly left in oblivion, with no new code and
1.41 deraadt 44: hardly any bugfixes, although releases were still being made.
1.34 miod 45: </p>
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48: A timid effort was made after the 2.7 release to revive the port, but
49: MIPS-specific toolchain problems prevented the system from building itself for a
50: long time, and development went on hiatus again. When the problem was finally
51: fixed, it was decided however to stop supporting it and remove the code from the
52: tree.
53: </p>
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55: <hr>
56: <a name="hardware"></a>
57: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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60: <h4>Supported models</h4>
61: </p>
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1.34 miod 63: <p>
64: <ul>
65: <li>DECstation 2100 <small>(PMIN)</small> and 3100 <small>(PMAX)</small>
66: <li>DECstation 5000/120, 5000/125 and 5000/133 <small>(3MIN)</small>
67: <li>DECstation 5000/200 <small>(3MAX)</small>
68: <li>DECstation 5000/240 <small>(3MAXPLUS)</small>
69: <li>Personal DECstation 5000/20, 5000/25, 5000/33 and 5000/50
70: <small>(MAXINE)</small>
71: </ul>
72: </p>
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75: <h4>Supported peripherals</h4>
76: </p>
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79: <ul>
80: <li><strong>Frame buffers</strong>
81: <ul>
82: <li>On-board PM monochrome (1024x864x1) or 8-bit color (1024x864x8) on PMIN
83: and PMAX
84: <li>On-board PMAG-DV (1024x864x8) on Personal DECstation
85: <li>TURBOchannel PMAG-AA (mfb) (1280x1024x1)
86: <li>TURBOchannel PMAG-BA (cfb) (1024x864x8)
87: <li>TURBOchannel PMAGB-BA (sfb) (1280x1024x8)
88: </ul>
1.36 jmc 89: XFree86 works on all supported frame buffers.
1.34 miod 90: <li><strong>Ethernet</strong>
91: <ul>
92: <li>On-board Lance ethernet
93: <li>TURBOchannel PMAD-AA or PMAD-AB Lance ethernet
94: </ul>
95: <li><strong>SCSI Controllers</strong>
96: <ul>
97: <li>On-board SCSI Controller (sii) on PMIN and PMAX
98: <li>On-board SCSI Controller (asc) on other models
99: <li>TURBOchannel PMAZ-AB SCSI Controller (asc)
100: </ul>
101: <li><strong>Miscellaneous devices</strong>
102: <ul>
103: <li>DEC LK-201 or compatible keyboard
104: <li>DEC VSXXX or compatible mouse
105: <li>On-board serial ports on most models
106: </ul>
107: </ul>
108: </p>
109:
110: <hr>
111: <a name="install"></a>
112: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
113: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/pmax:</strong>
114: </font></h3>
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1.34 miod 116: <p>
1.44 miod 117: The last supported OpenBSD/pmax release was
1.34 miod 118: <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7</a>.
119: It is not available on ftp sites anymore, but releases up to 2.3 were
120: available on CD.
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