@revspace After a few days of work, implementing 3 missing libc functions, repairing an extra 4MB of RAM, hacking around toolchain issues, we finally got Lynx 2.8.2 compiled and running on the VAX-11/750 (in 4.3 BSD Quasijarus)! That means we got to browse the (non-HTTPS) web using no equipment or parts newer than 1986 this side of the network (besides the AUI 10Base-T phy).
212739 author: peterbjornx@hsnl.social
31 Mar 21:20
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212738 author: peterbjornx@hsnl.social
30 Mar 13:29
tags: #bsd #dec #minicomputer #retrocomputing #unix #unixhistory #vax11
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Decided to display the VAX-11/750 at the @revspace open day yesterday. All the hard work repairing it seems to have paid off, managed to get 14 hours of uptime out of it before shutting it down at the end of the day!