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I Bought a $200K VAX on eBay – Now It Runs My Smart Lights [video](youtube.com)
10 points by fortran77 a day ago | 3 comments
  • leakycap15 hours ago

    Direct link showing neofetch on NetBSD 8 on a VAX3100: https://youtu.be/e7cJ7v2lYdE?t=838

    Followed by examples of Links browser, ssh (slooowww!), Python... I was shocked what was poissible

  • PaulHoulea day ago

    My high school got a VAX 11/730 to replace their PDP-8 in the mid 1980's which made it practical to teach programming classes based on PASCAL.

    The VAX 11/780 was considered a big machine when it came out in 1977, which had a "32-bit" architecture very similar to the 68k and 386 machines. By the late 1980s, you could buy a 386 desktop computer that whupped the VAX.

    • _wire_12 hours ago |parent

      Uh... The 386 was designed on 11/780 and inherited lots of its protected-mode features from VAX architecture manuals that came with the many 780s installed at Intel design in SC and Hillsboro at that time, but other than this... yes the VAX was a "very similar" architecture to a 386. Thanks for noticing.