👀 what's this perfect thing to watch while getting chemo, thank you for the content over the years, only two transfusions left!!

You, Sir, are now an officially certified DEC engineer! 🎉

Whoa whoa wow wow, more computer stuff for me to watch and only vaguely understand!!!

"That way everyting in the stack would be DEC tested, DEC approved..." you could almost say... fully DECed out ;D

The monochrome orange phosphor CRTs look so cozy.

NetBSD on everything!! Would love to see it on a Nokia Communicator 9110 and various Windows CE 1.0 and 2.0 handheld PCs, old OG POWER1 and POWER2 and POWER3 IBM servers and workstations, OG PowerPC 601-604 Macs. NetBSD 68K for Macs and Amigas and more, even?! Super cool to see you work through your troubleshooting process, and then work through the fix/patch development. Beautiful video overall. Definitely the step-by-step process therapy needed today! (If you could lend your brain to the ELKS embedded Linux project to get X windowing and SSH working that would be swell too… and show it off on various 8086, 80186, 80286 hardware and NEC V20 and other 16-bit NEC CPUs? That would be super cool)

Take a shot every time the word "However" is said.

I found this video by accident and while watching it, I remembered the recent LCG thread on port-vax. While thinking "Whee, this poor guy was just a teeny tiny bit too early, that has just been fixed!", I later on realized that you were the guy fixing it. Thanks for working on NetBSD on VAX! 🙂

You have sold me on your channel. Hardcore OS hacking on KZfaq? Yesssss

In the video some of the code mentions “VLC” models. I used a 4000 VLC Workstation for years in the 1990s, the VLC was rumoured to be short for “Very Low Cost” as it was the cheapest workstation you could buy then.

I really love your content, even tho I don't understand what's going on sometimes!

Nice work! I ran NetBSD on an old Sparc Classic (originally a controller system for a printing press). It wasn't quite as pokey as the microvax, but getting a kernel compiled for it was an interesting experience. It had a good second life as an smtp host until it blew a cap 3 years later. 😊

Thx for the vid. I think NetBSD needs way more attention. It is a beautiful system and definitely has its place in between Free- and Open- BSD.

This video was awesome, i had a blast watching it. Thank you for making it so enjoyable :) Also, i'm every day more and more blown away at how readable NetBSD codebase is, i really want to start getting my feet wet with it on my main pc or my retro-gaming one

Genius glimpse, you brought them down

laughed out loud at watching neofetch running at a glacial pace in the background

It's a good life, making sure NetBSD boots on old Vaxen, and that Nethack works as proof of function. ❤

such an entertaining video. thank you Ncommander!

Love your content. Doing stuff like this is how I hope to spend my retirement. But for now, I gotta live vicariously through you!

One another great video!

Hmmm ... I wonder if my VAXserver 3300 could run this?

Great as always 😊

I seem to recall dropping into one or two of the streams for a short time. Good to see what became of that all 😌 Now I really need to drag out some of my old vax and alpha gear just to bring it back to life

2:49 Shout out to Ultrix, the first Unix I had root on, back on 1994.

I want a VT-220, and possibly an early-90s VAX as I was introduced to these (and VMS) when I was 11 in the summer of 1992.

Oh I liked the lowlevel driver details and might like more. I have a maxed out Macintosh SE/30 that I’m still trying to get booting NetBSD 10. I would love a video about that :)

Genius glimpse

Thanks for that interessting video and a different perspective on the topic. I've used MOP for VMS satellites and the configuration of some DECservers, but that keeps you in the DEC world. I hope that you can run Ultrix on that offical unsupported machine :)

I've got a microvax 3100 sitting right behind me and a wise terminal to go with it. It's running vms. good times.

VMS-tan: “Somebody toUCHA MY SPAGHET” Alternatively, when the address extensions are _even more_ virtual

Some years ago I netbooted and installed NetBSD on a MicroVAX ... it was a real learning experience, but I remember mopd under Linux working quite nicely back then...

Hell yeah

@17:30 this is the exact reason why I prefer BSD (and some older "real" Unixes, like SCO) over Linux.

Really cool. Your code rot comment really stood out to me. I was trying to run packet radio (1k2 baud AFSK AX.25 over ham radio) with the compiled ports in NetBSD. Unfortunately, code rot has got to the BBS software, and it crashes when a new user connects and tries to register their home BBS. This stuff seems right up your alley, but not sure if you are a ham radio/packet radio guy. I am not really a programmer, so I am not sure how to go about debugging and fixing the source. I started with GDB, but it's socket simply goes away in a crash and does not seem to do anything in GDB. I am also not sure if the binary is stripped. That is about as much as I know about this process.

YOLO debugging 🤣 Oh that gives my heart a happy

Oh, I recognise that terminal emulator :) whether you picked it just for the video, or use it all the time, kudos haha

Well, that was painful. Couple things I enjoyed on the VAX were DCL and .obj files were linkable in multiple languages. Once wrote a program in Basic, Pascal, Assembly, and linked it all together because I could. What we programmers think is fun can be questionable.

Neat.

I'm still trying to get a version of VMS/OpenVMS I can install somewhere ):

Use X with this? Find modern uses for the old hardware? And please support! Excited to use with my 3100! What does everyone think about using with Lightweight DIY office suite? Can you port Rust to this - to use various rust TUI launchers and command line programs?

My first exposure to UNIX was original recipe BSD on a VAX.

Certified Hood Classic™️

The VAXstation 4000 VLC was introduced in 1991, not 1985

Congratulations (you get the A). This was the hardest project I assigned to one of my students in a senior level college class some 20+ years ago (he didn't complete it). But the easiest project was to connect up 2 dial-up modems and get communications going between 2 machines (she didn't complete that one either). lol This is a complex project to get done as you need to understand MOP, then Netparms and BootP just to get a kernel running. Then while working from memory, get nfs running and mount the rest of your operating system (on another machine). Then you can format the drive, install NetBSD and hopefully it will boot it (using only a network connection and a hard drive). It can be done. I left my VaxStation 3600 at the college in case anyone wanted to attempt the feat in the future (that is a MIPs based machine anyway). I still have my AlphaServers and a MicroPDP-11/53 which were more valuable in my mind. Let me know if you want to try some DEC 16-bit projects. ;-)

Now run a netatalk 2 server on the VAX to serve vintage Macintosh computers with files...... in theory it should work if the dependencies are available on VAX. Murray Hilll UNIX purist...... now that's a new one.

When she's a netbsd 10 but she's on a VAX somewhere in Canada

netbsd runs on anything, in 5 years it will have ports for toasters and fridges lol

BSD IS UNIX. It shares like 0% of the code but it can be traced straight back to the original OS/Kernel.

A MicroVAX is not really a "VAX" in the sense that the actual minicomputer VAX systems of the 70's/80's were.

But does it run Doom?😂

its always the fault of the framebuffer

But does it runs Doom?