[Info-vax] Alternative _legal_ operating systems for VAX ?

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Sun Jan 2 17:20:00 EST 2022


Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Sadly, language has little to do with it.  Too  much of the
>DEC stuff is still proprietary and trade secret locked.  Last
>I heard that was the reason why neither NetBSD or OpenBSD ever
>had a functioning X11.

Ever had a functioning X11 _server_.  The clients work just fine,
it's just that the DEC framebuffers are nontrivial to develop a
display server for given the available documentation.
--scott
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