>>There hasn't been anything official. Vax is one of several
architectures that Theo has had to stop building base >>snapshots for
because the system is too unreliable / the hardware itself is unreliable
/ the hardware is dead. The >>last snapshot is dated Oct 31. I assume
that sebastia@'s cessation of package builds has related reasons.
Back in late 2013 or early 2014 a Vax 4000/96 died. I brought up using
emulators to build with, but Theo didn't feel it was a good idea (and I
agree with his reasons). Here is his quote "We do not wish to use a vax
emulator. That will use even more power than the vaxes, and actually we
are still looking for someone to pay the power bill around here."
I've been running a MicroVax 3100/40, and doing builds with it is
painfully slow.
Darren Clark
