NetBSD 10, But It's On A 25Mhz VAX Somewhere In Canada ...

👀 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

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! 🙂

The monochrome orange phosphor CRTs look so cozy.

I installed NetBSD in 1992(?) on my Amiga 3000, shortly before the AT&T lawsuit. Then changed to Debian until Debian and Linux basically dropped the Amiga Plattform. Last Year I upgraded it back to NetBSD. And it just ran. Even supporting my SVGA card through the framebuffer device, although with little acceleration. It is amazing how much NetBSD can do.

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)

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

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

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.

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. ❤

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.

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

Genius glimpse, you brought them down

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

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. 😊

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

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