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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/2/22 5:20 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.

That was my point exactly. Information on the DEC video hardware
is not readily available and thus no X-server for the VAX.  I
have a bunch of VAXServer-3100's. Not much point in putting one
on my desk if I have to put something else on my desk to view
the output from the VS3100.

bill