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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-01-03 11:47, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-01-02, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>
>> That is definitely true. It's not that pleasant to run current NetBSD on
>> any VAX at the moment. But there are also some problems/issues that
>> we're waiting for a new version of gcc to come along, where they have
>> been fixed.
>>
> 
> Generating the ssh server keys in NetBSD running under simh was
> certainly "interesting". :-) I left it running overnight and it
> was done in the morning so I don't know how long that actually took. :-)
> 
> Regarding gcc, I notice there were discussions about removing VAX
> support from gcc and the subsequent bounty to fix the immediate
> issues to stop that from happening.
> 
> Are those the issues you were talking about ?

I suspect so, yes.
A bunch of issues have been fixed, which will be in the next version of 
gcc to be incorporated into NetBSD, at which point I have some hopes 
that things will improve. Maybe not in speed, but at least functionality.
And I believe some bounty was collected.

   Johnny