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posted by cmn32480 on Friday September 02 2016, @01:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the that's-a-lotta-changes dept.

OpenBSD 6.0 has been released. Among the changes listed in the release announcement are removal of Linux emulation, systrace, the usermount option, and the VAX port.


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  • (Score: 1) by Deeo Kain on Friday September 02 2016, @05:52PM

    by Deeo Kain (5848) on Friday September 02 2016, @05:52PM (#396726)

    A VAX port.
    Isn't this a compelling selling point?

  • (Score: 2) by gnampff on Friday September 02 2016, @05:57PM

    by gnampff (5658) on Friday September 02 2016, @05:57PM (#396730)

    Read again. The VAX port is axed :)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @06:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @06:39PM (#396744)

      Why?

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by LaminatorX on Friday September 02 2016, @06:55PM

        by LaminatorX (14) <laminatorxNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Friday September 02 2016, @06:55PM (#396747)

        I was more surprised that it still had one. If anybody's still limping VAX hardware that's old enough to buy liquor along in 2016 I figure it's because they've got some irreplaceable legacy VMS software on it. Why nurse an old VAX along for OpenBSD when OpenBSD will run better on a 2nd hand 3year old machine? Hobby ports on niche systems is properly NetBSD's domain.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @09:53PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @09:53PM (#396795)

          We sort of have a museum of old computers, including a VAX which runs NetBSD. I am curious what the difficulties are keeping a modern kernel for an obsolete CPU, given a stable abstraction layer.

          Debian discontinued official Alpha support several years ago, but it appears some volunteers are doing best-effort maintenance.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @11:37PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @11:37PM (#396814)

          I still us my PDP-11 to keep my house warm in the winter, you insensitive clod!

        • (Score: 2) by J053 on Saturday September 03 2016, @12:32AM

          by J053 (3532) <dakineNO@SPAMshangri-la.cx> on Saturday September 03 2016, @12:32AM (#396824) Homepage
          We were finally able to switch the last VAX off this year.
          • (Score: 2) by LaminatorX on Monday September 12 2016, @09:28PM

            by LaminatorX (14) <laminatorxNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Monday September 12 2016, @09:28PM (#400944)

            Congratulations. Speaking of archeo-cumputing, your handle reminds me of me very first user name: P057@nemomus

            That's "P057@nemomus.bitnet" if any of you fancy Internet users need to send email back in time to mid-90's-me.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by TheGratefulNet on Friday September 02 2016, @07:20PM

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Friday September 02 2016, @07:20PM (#396754)

    reminded me of the company TGV which stood for 'two guys and a vax'. good times.

    --
    "It is now safe to switch off your computer."