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History and Status:
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OpenBSD/vax began in early 2000 when architecture specific code was adapted
from NetBSD's very mature port to these systems. Smaller imports still
occur as useful changes happen in that OS, but not wholly derivative, changes
-in our port are often backported to NetBSD. The result of all this work is
+in our port are often incorporated into NetBSD. The result of all this work is
an Operating System that is stable and familiar to any OpenBSD user.
+Significant changes post 3.0:
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+- Binary logical page size changed to 4096 bytes
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+
Significant changes between 2.9 and 3.0:
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-- Support for a couple more machines added.
-
- Event counters attached to most devices. (from NetBSD)
-
- More addressing modes added to the emulation system. (work by Jim Uhl)
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- Support for "Omega" machines added
+
- Event counters attached to most devices
+
- More addressing modes added to the emulation system
Significant changes between 2.8 and 2.9:
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-- Support for 16 filesystems per drive. (work by hugh)
-
- Emulation of the EMODD instruction. (work by bjc)
-
- Support for KA53 (Cheetah) machines. (work by bjc & hugh)
-
- Interrupt signals no longer cause ksh subshells to core. (work by bjc)
+
- Support for 16 filesystems per drive
+
- Emulation of the EMODD instruction
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- Support for "Cheetah" machines added
+
- Interrupt signals no longer cause ksh subshells to core
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Tested systems:
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VAX 4000/100 (SCSI)
VAX 4000/105 (SCSI)
VAX 4000/300
- VAX 4000/{4,5,6}00{,A}
+ VAX 4000/{4,5,6}00
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-
+ |
Projects being worked on:
- - vaxstation 2000's hdc9224 (floppy/mfm hard disk controller)
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- qbus tk50/tk70 tape drives
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- VAXstation 2000's HDC9224 (floppy/mfm hard disk controller)
+
- MSCP support for tapes and drives on QBUS/UQSSP machines
- shared libraries? eventually...
-
- support for new systems as we obtain them
+
- Support for new systems as we obtain them
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- Programming info for LCG or SPGFX framebuffers
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- Software references for DSSI or MSCP
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- Software references for SHAC DSSI
- Any edition VARM
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Known problems:
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www@openbsd.org
-$OpenBSD: vax.html,v 1.27 2001/11/13 14:15:43 hugh Exp $
+$OpenBSD: vax.html,v 1.28 2001/11/30 15:25:28 hugh Exp $
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