[Info-vax] MIcrovax 3100-98

[Michael Moroney]

kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:

>Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>I recently looked at AMD's new CPUs.  Guess what.  The only drivers 
>>available are for WEENDOZE 10.  Which I won't boot up.

>I'm running Centos 7 on the latest AMD hardware, and it's been fine.  If only
>the LSI raid controllers on those machines were half as solid.

>Have not tried Slackware on those systems yet but that's one of my projects
>for next week.

>Do not expect VMS support for them... they are sufficiently different than 
>the Intel processors that some kernel tweaking is likely needed.

I am pretty sure they will be supported. Just not right away, they are 
different.  For example VMS had a bunch of different CPU_ROUTINES_XXX images
for VAX, VMS loading the correct one for the actual VAX it is on.  Already
X86 VMS has several SYSTEM_PRIMITIVES_XXX.EXE images for different variants
of (Intel) processors/virtual systems.