[rescue] OS for a DEC 3000/300

BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Sep 13 13:24:18 CDT 2001


> > I am rescuing a 300/300 tommorow and I'm wondering if anybody has OS 
> > media for it.  I'd like to try both OSF/1(insert name of the month 
> > here) or VMS/Alpha.  Anybody have either of these?  If not I'll run 
> > netbsd on it.  Also if anybody has an extra DEFTA they'd be willing 
> > to part with...
> 
> www.montagar.com/hobbyist for vms.

I have been running NetBSD current on mine, quite successfully.
Rebuilding the kernel for tcwscons allows a reasonably good X
capability.  And it handles large fonts, quite well, for us
myopic folks.

Bob




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