About NetBSD/vax

NetBSD/vax is the port of NetBSD to DEC VAX computers. The first model was announced in 1977 and they were sold until September 30, 2000. NetBSD/vax was the first free OS that ran on the VAX series of computers, and by far runs on the largest number of models.

Development activity on NetBSD/vax continues at a speed depending of people's spare time. NetBSD runs on most of the common desktop systems and also on some of the more unusual older systems such as the large-scale 11/780 and 8600.

Release Info

• NetBSD/vax 10.1 via download
• NetBSD/vax 10.1 ISO
• NetBSD/vax 10.1 INSTALL notes
• NetBSD/vax 10.0 pre-built binary packages from pkgsrc
• NetBSD/vax 10.0 changes
• NetBSD/vax 11.0 changes

Mailing List

The NetBSD/vax mailing list, covering NetBSD's port to vax machine: [ subscribe | archive ]

Mail the NetBSD/vax port maintainer

Supported Hardware

Systems for which support exist only in current are marked (current)

• VAX 11/78X systems
• VAX 11/750 systems
• VAX 8600 and 8650 systems
• VAX 8200, 8250, 8300 and 8350 systems
• MicroVAX II family systems
• MicroVAX III family systems
• MicroVAX 3200 and 3300
• MicroVAX 3400 and 3500
• MicroVAX 3600
• MicroVAX 3800 and 3900
• VAXstation 2000/MicroVAX 2000 systems
• MicroVAX 3100 model m10, m20 systems
• VAXstation 3100 model m30 and m40
• VAXstation 3100 model m38 and m48
• VAXstation 3100 model m76 systems
• MicroVAX 3100 model 80
• MicroVAX 3100 model 85 (current)
• MicroVAX 3100 model 90 (untested) (current)
• MicroVAX 3100 model 95 (untested) (current)
• VAX 4000/100, /105, /106A and /108 (current)
• VAX 4000/200
• VAX 4000/300
• VAX 4000/400 (current)
• VAX 4000/500 (current)
• VAX 4000/600 (untested) (current)
• VAX 4000/705A (current)
• VAXstation 4000 model VLC
• VAXstation 4000 model 60
• VAXstation 4000 model 90

Additional Info

• NetBSD/vax FAQ maintained by Gunnar Helliesen [ mirror ]
• VAX hardware reference maintained by David Brownlee
• NetBSD/vax History
• Developers and Development Funding
• NetBSD Diskless HOWTO
• Netbooting NetBSD/vax by Brian D Chase
• VAX MACRO and Instruction Set Reference Manual
• Running NetBSD/vax on emulator by Lars Brinkhoff