blob: 966be458ae6e7e0bc0e2abbff6543ea361795927 (
plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
|
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Modern BSD Computing for Fun on a VAX!</title>
<!-- metadata -->
<meta name="generator" content="S5" />
<meta name="version" content="S5 1.1" />
<meta name="presdate" content="20190518" />
<meta name="author" content="Jeffrey B. Armstrong" />
<meta name="company" content="Approximatrix, LLC" />
<!-- configuration parameters -->
<meta name="defaultView" content="slideshow" />
<meta name="controlVis" content="hidden" />
<!-- style sheet links -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="ui/default/slides.css" type="text/css" media="projection" id="slideProj" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="ui/default/outline.css" type="text/css" media="screen" id="outlineStyle" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="ui/default/print.css" type="text/css" media="print" id="slidePrint" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="ui/default/opera.css" type="text/css" media="projection" id="operaFix" />
<!-- S5 JS -->
<script src="ui/default/slides.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="layout">
<div id="controls"><!-- DO NOT EDIT --></div>
<div id="currentSlide"><!-- DO NOT EDIT --></div>
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="footer">
<h1>BSDCan 2019</h1>
<h2>Modern BSD Computing for Fun on a VAX!</h2>
</div>
</div>
<div class="presentation">
<div class="slide">
<h1>Modern BSD Computing for Fun on a VAX!</h1>
<h3>Trying to use a VAX in today's world</h3>
<h4>Jeffrey Armstrong</h4>
</div>
<!-- ------------------- Intro ---------------------- -->
<div class="slide">
<h1>NetBSD 8 on a VAX</h1>
<ul>
<li><s>Retrocomputing</s></li>
<li>Modern OS</li>
<li>Modern Packages</li>
<li>Modern Workflow</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="slide">
<h1>Limitations</h1>
<ul>
<li>Last VAX: ~2000</li>
<li>32-bit Architecture</li>
<li>Single Processor (generally...)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="slide">
<h1>VAX 4000/200</h1>
<ul>
<li>KA660 CPU @ ~32MHz</li>
<li>32MB RAM</li>
<li>Emulex UC08 SCSI</li>
<li>10Mb/s Ethernet</li>
<li>Pure Qbus System</li>
</ul>
<div class="handout">
<ul>
<li>Introduced January 1991</li>
<li>Codenamed <em>Spitfire</em></li>
<li>Fastest pure Qbus computer ever</li>
<li>Entry-level server</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="slide">
<h1>VAXstation 3100 m38</h1>
<ul>
<li>KA42-B CPU @ ~16MHz</li>
<li>32MB RAM</li>
<li>10Mb/s Ethernet</li>
<li>Monochrome Framebuffer</li>
</ul>
<div class="handout">
<ul>
<li>Introduced ~1993</li>
<li>Codenamed <em>PVAX rev 7</em></li>
<li>Desktop Workstation</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<!-- ------------------- Part 1 ---------------------- -->
<div class="slide">
<h1>Setting Up a VAX</h1>
</div>
<div class="slide">
<h1>Setting Up a VAX</h1>
<ul>
<li>Install NetBSD 8</li>
<li>Bootstrap pkgsrc</li>
<li>Install packages</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="slide">
<h1>Installing NetBSD 8</h1>
<ul>
<li>Netboot using <strong>mopd</strong></li>
<li>Boot server <em>must be</em> NetBSD</li>
<li>First sign of bottlenecks...</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="slide">
<h1>Installing NetBSD 8</h1>
<!-- Disk access stats -->
<!-- CPU stats -->
</div>
<div class="slide">
<h1>Bootstrap pkgsrc</h1>
<ul>
<li>2018Q4 Archive: 61MB</li>
<li>2018Q4 Extracted: 466MB</li>
</ul>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<pre>
vax# time tar -xzf pkgsrc-2018Q4.tar.gz -C /usr
50109.89 real 2287.96 user 17527.31 sys
</pre>
</div>
<div class="slide">
<h1>Bootstrap pkgsrc</h1>
<pre>
===> bootstrap started: Tue Mar 5 11:25:56 UTC 2019
===> bootstrap ended: Thu Mar 7 13:17:40 UTC 2019
179510.09 real 109170.55 user 16631.73 sys
</pre>
</div>
<!-- ------------------- Part 2 ---------------------- -->
<div class="slide">
<h1>VAX as a Client</h1>
<!-- Client Picture -->
</div>
<div class="slide">
<h1>Client Necessities</h1>
<ul>
<li>Web Browser</li>
<li>Text Editor</li>
<li>Languages...</li>
<li>Source Control</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="slide">
<h1>Client Necessities</h1>
<!-- No X11 Picture -->
<div class="handout">
<ul>
<li>No Framebuffers</li>
<li>Fixed-frequency Monitors</li>
<li>Toolkits...</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="slide">
<h1>Web Browser</h1>
<ul class="incremental">
<li class="negative">lynx</li>
<li class="negative">w3m</li>
<li>links</li>
</ul>
</div>
<!-- ------------------- Part 3 ---------------------- -->
<div class="slide">
<h1>VAX as a Server</h1>
<!-- Server Picture -->
</div>
<div class="slide">
<h1>Server Necessities</h1>
<ul>
<li>Web Server</li>
<li>Remote Shell</li>
<li>Languages...</li>
<li>Database</li>
<li>Samba</li>
</ul>
</div>
<!-- ------------------ Conclusion -------------------- -->
</div>
</body>
</html>
|
