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! 18: <font color="#0000ff"><i>Open</i></font><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
! 19: <font color="#e00000">pmax</font>
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1.44 miod 24: OpenBSD/pmax used to run on a large set of the Digital MIPS-based DECstation and
1.37 nick 25: DECserver family. These machines were the counterpart of the <a
1.34 miod 26: href="vax.html">VAX-based VAXstations</a>,
27: until the <a href="alpha.html">Alpha</a> line was ready.
1.50 deraadt 28: <p>
1.15 graichen 29:
1.46 deraadt 30: <strong>The OpenBSD/pmax port was discontinued after the 2.7 release.</strong>
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33: <hr>
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1.34 miod 35: <a name="history"></a>
36: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
1.29 deraadt 37:
1.34 miod 38: <p>
39: The pmax port of OpenBSD was started by Thomas Graichen shortly before the
40: OpenBSD 2.0 release, based on the NetBSD/pmax sources. It was then slowly
41: brought in shape, becoming self-hosted, and moving to ECOFF, then ELF
42: binaries.
43: </p>
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1.34 miod 45: <p>
46: A few releases later, Thomas Graichen stopped working on this port, and
47: nobody stepped in. The port was slowly left in oblivion, with no new code and
1.41 deraadt 48: hardly any bugfixes, although releases were still being made.
1.34 miod 49: </p>
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1.34 miod 51: <p>
52: A timid effort was made after the 2.7 release to revive the port, but
53: MIPS-specific toolchain problems prevented the system from building itself for a
54: long time, and development went on hiatus again. When the problem was finally
55: fixed, it was decided however to stop supporting it and remove the code from the
56: tree.
57: </p>
58:
59: <hr>
60: <a name="hardware"></a>
61: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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1.34 miod 63: <h4>Supported models</h4>
1.15 graichen 64:
1.34 miod 65: <ul>
66: <li>DECstation 2100 <small>(PMIN)</small> and 3100 <small>(PMAX)</small>
67: <li>DECstation 5000/120, 5000/125 and 5000/133 <small>(3MIN)</small>
68: <li>DECstation 5000/200 <small>(3MAX)</small>
69: <li>DECstation 5000/240 <small>(3MAXPLUS)</small>
70: <li>Personal DECstation 5000/20, 5000/25, 5000/33 and 5000/50
71: <small>(MAXINE)</small>
72: </ul>
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1.34 miod 74: <h4>Supported peripherals</h4>
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1.34 miod 76: <ul>
77: <li><strong>Frame buffers</strong>
78: <ul>
79: <li>On-board PM monochrome (1024x864x1) or 8-bit color (1024x864x8) on PMIN
80: and PMAX
81: <li>On-board PMAG-DV (1024x864x8) on Personal DECstation
82: <li>TURBOchannel PMAG-AA (mfb) (1280x1024x1)
83: <li>TURBOchannel PMAG-BA (cfb) (1024x864x8)
84: <li>TURBOchannel PMAGB-BA (sfb) (1280x1024x8)
85: </ul>
1.36 jmc 86: XFree86 works on all supported frame buffers.
1.34 miod 87: <li><strong>Ethernet</strong>
88: <ul>
89: <li>On-board Lance ethernet
90: <li>TURBOchannel PMAD-AA or PMAD-AB Lance ethernet
91: </ul>
92: <li><strong>SCSI Controllers</strong>
93: <ul>
94: <li>On-board SCSI Controller (sii) on PMIN and PMAX
95: <li>On-board SCSI Controller (asc) on other models
96: <li>TURBOchannel PMAZ-AB SCSI Controller (asc)
97: </ul>
98: <li><strong>Miscellaneous devices</strong>
99: <ul>
100: <li>DEC LK-201 or compatible keyboard
101: <li>DEC VSXXX or compatible mouse
102: <li>On-board serial ports on most models
103: </ul>
104: </ul>
105:
106: <hr>
107: <a name="install"></a>
108: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
109: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/pmax:</strong>
110: </font></h3>
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1.44 miod 112: The last supported OpenBSD/pmax release was
1.34 miod 113: <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7</a>.
114: It is not available on ftp sites anymore, but releases up to 2.3 were
115: available on CD.
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