Blog of Talmage 23.4.2003

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2003-04-23

More on retrocomputing

On a NetBSD mailing list that I subscribe to, an author asked about interesting hardware on which he could run NetBSD . Among other things, I suggested that he try the VAX version of NetBSD on the VAX flavor of Bob Supnik's simh, the historical computer simulator.

Lo! and Behold! Clever Lars Brinkhoff is already doing it and he has provided detailed instructions for doing it yourself.

I just want to say that I tried it and it works! It took a long time to install NetBSD into the VAX emulator on my Toshiba Libretto L1 subnotebook but it was easy to do. The emulator runs NetBSD effortlessly.

Things to do in my copious free time:

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