Re: DECsystem 5500 available (fwd)

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:36:32PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  We may be interested in getting this system to add Linux support.  It is
> quite rare and despite having an R3000 processor as its main computational
> unit it actually has a VAX processor as well, which is used for executing
> diagnostics.  There is some programming-level documentation available --
> much enough I think a port should be moderately easy, at least from the
> hardware point of view.  Code may require major surgery here and there,
> though.
> 
>  I'd take the system myself as it would be a good check for portability of
> code, but it's out of reach for me at the moment.

As long as I won't have to learn VAX assembler ;-)

  Ralf