On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, Jan-Benedict Glaw via cctalk wrote: > > Linux and/or NetBSD/vax would be a good choice, though, to implement the > > VAX's system calls and execute it's binaries. Though there were more > > concerted efforts to do this years ago, but I don't know what became of > > them. Google shows a smattering of efforts littered with broken links. :( > > There was a vax-linux port started by others, and I cared for it for a > good number of years. My life changed a lot since then, I quite failed > (and failed hard!) to bring up the needed time to care for Linux, care > for GCC and Binutils, GNU libc and all those programs silently > expecting IEEE floating point support.
I'm still here to help. :) I expect to get at least one of my VAXen online RSN (a 4000/60, with TURBOchannel). As in a couple of weeks' time (if only not that damn COVID thing!). It boots our ancient VAX/Linux port with an NFS-root over a PMAD interface. Other machines may follow. Maciej
