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<title>NetBSD/vax</title>
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  <portabout>
   <para>
    NetBSD/vax is the port of NetBSD to DEC VAX computers.
    The first model was announced in 1977 and they were sold
    until September 30, 2000!
    NetBSD/vax was the first free OS that ran on the
    VAX series of computers, and by far runs on the largest number of
    models.
   </para>
   <para>
    Development activity on NetBSD/vax continues at a speed
    depending of people's spare time. NetBSD runs on most of the
    common desktop systems and also on some of the more unusual 
    older systems such as the large-scale  11/780 and 8600.
   </para>
  </portabout>

  <portinfo>

    <portinfoitem>
      <ulink url="http://vaxine.bitcon.no/">NetBSD/vax FAQ</ulink>
        maintained by Gunnar Helliesen &nbsp;
        [&nbsp;<ulink url="http://vaxarchive.org/swdoc/bsd/vaxine/">mirror</ulink>&nbsp;]
    </portinfoitem>

    <portinfoitem>
      <ulink url="../../docs/Hardware/Machines/DEC/vax/">VAX
        hardware reference</ulink> maintained by David Brownlee
    </portinfoitem>
    
    <portinfoitem>
      <ulink url="history.html">NetBSD/vax History</ulink>
    </portinfoitem>
    
    <portinfoitem>
      <ulink url="development.html">Developers and Development Funding</ulink>
    </portinfoitem>
    
    <portinfoitem>
      <ulink url="../../docs/network/netboot/">
        NetBSD Diskless HOWTO</ulink>
    </portinfoitem>
    
    <portinfoitem>
      <ulink url="http://vax.sevensages.org/swdist/bsd/bdc/VAX-netboot-HOWTO.html">Netbooting
        NetBSD/vax</ulink> by Brian D Chase
    </portinfoitem>

    <portinfoitem>
      <ulink url="http://www.openvms.compaq.com/doc/73final/4515/4515PRO.html">
        VAX MACRO and Instruction Set Reference Manual</ulink>
    </portinfoitem>

    <portinfoitem>
      <ulink url="emulator-howto.html">Running NetBSD/vax on emulator</ulink>
        by Lars Brinkhoff
    </portinfoitem>

    <portml name="vax">NetBSD's port to Digital's VAX series of machines</portml>

    <portcurrentitem type="ftp"/>
    <portcurrentitem type="installnotes"/>
    <portcurrentitem type="packages" packages-for="1.6.2"/>
    <portcurrentitem type="ra"/>
    <portcurrentitem type="port-changes" />
    <portcurrentitem type="netbsd-changes" />
    <portcurrentitem type="mirrors"/>
    <portcurrentitem type="cdroms"/>
    
    <portfutureitem type="changes"/>
    <portfutureitem type="snapshots"/>

    <portlinkitem>
      <ulink url="http://vaxarchive.org/">VAXarchive</ulink>
    </portlinkitem>
    <portlinkitem>
      <ulink url="http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/computers/vaxen/">House
        of VAX</ulink>
    </portlinkitem>

  </portinfo>

  <portnews>
    <portnewsitem date="2009-04-29" title="NetBSD 5.0 released">
      <ulink url="../../releases/formal-5/">NetBSD 5.0</ulink> has been
      released.  More information is available in the
      <ulink url="../../releases/formal-5/NetBSD-5.0.html">5.0 release
      announcement</ulink>.
    </portnewsitem>

    <portnewsitem date="2008-10-13" title="NetBSD 4.0.1 released">
      <ulink url="../../releases/formal-4/">NetBSD 4.0.1</ulink> has been
      released.  More information is available in the
      <ulink url="../../releases/formal-4/NetBSD-4.0.1.html">4.0.1 release
      announcement</ulink>.
    </portnewsitem>

    <portnewsitem date="2007-12-19" title="NetBSD 4.0 released">
      <ulink url="../../releases/formal-4/">NetBSD 4.0</ulink> has been
      released.  More information is available in the
      <ulink url="../../releases/formal-4/NetBSD-4.0.html">4.0 release
      announcement</ulink>.
    </portnewsitem>

    <portnewsitem date="2006-11-04" title="NetBSD 3.1 released">
      <ulink url="../../releases/formal-3/">NetBSD 3.1</ulink>,
      the first maintenance release of the netbsd-3 release branch,
      has been released with binary distributions for 53 architectures.
      More information is available in the <ulink
      url="../../releases/formal-3/NetBSD-3.1.html">3.1 release
      announcement</ulink>.
    </portnewsitem>

       <portnewsitem date="2005-12-23" title="NetBSD 3.0 released">
      <ulink url="../../releases/formal-3/">NetBSD 3.0</ulink> has been
      released with support for 57 architectures.  More information
      is available in the
      <ulink url="../../releases/formal-3/NetBSD-3.0.html">3.0 release
      announcement</ulink>.
    </portnewsitem>

    <portnewsarchive/>
  </portnews>

  <portsection title="Supported System Models">
    <para>
    Systems for which support exist only in current are marked
    <emphasis>(current)</emphasis>
    </para>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#star">VAX 11/78X systems</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#comet">VAX 11/750 systems</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#venus">VAX 8600 and 8650 systems</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#scorpio">VAX 8200, 8250, 8300 and 8350 systems</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#mayflower">MicroVAX II family systems</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#mayfair">MicroVAX III family systems</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#mayfair">MicroVAX 3200 and 3300</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#mayfair">MicroVAX 3400 and 3500</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#mayfair2">MicroVAX 3600</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#mayfair3">MicroVAX 3800 and 3900</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#vaxstar">VAXstation 2000/MicroVAX 2000 systems</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#teammate2">MicroVAX 3100 model m10, m20 systems</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#pvax">VAXstation 3100 model m30 and m40</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#pvax">VAXstation 3100 model m38 and m48</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#pvax">VAXstation 3100 model m76 systems</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#waverley">MicroVAX 3100 model 80</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#waverley">MicroVAX 3100 model 85</ulink>
	<emphasis>(current)</emphasis></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#waverley">MicroVAX 3100 model 90 (untested)</ulink>
	<emphasis>(current)</emphasis></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#waverley">MicroVAX 3100 model 95 (untested)</ulink>
	<emphasis>(current)</emphasis></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#spitfire">VAX 4000/100, /105, /106A and /108</ulink>
	<emphasis>(current)</emphasis></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#spitfire">VAX 4000/200</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#pele">VAX 4000/300</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#pele">VAX 4000/400</ulink>
	<emphasis>(current)</emphasis></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#pele">VAX 4000/500</ulink>
	<emphasis>(current)</emphasis></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#pele">VAX 4000/600 (untested)</ulink>
	<emphasis>(current)</emphasis></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#pele">VAX 4000/705A</ulink>
	<emphasis>(current)</emphasis></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#pvax2">VAXstation 4000 model VLC</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#pmariah">VAXstation 4000 model 60</ulink></listitem>
      <listitem><ulink url="models.html#cougar">VAXstation 4000 model 90</ulink></listitem>
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