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1Hardware supported by NetBSD/vax _VER includes (but may not be limited to):
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3	CPU types:
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5		VAX 11/750, VAX 11/78{0,5}, VAX 8200/8250/8300/8350,
6		VAX 8600/8650, MicroVAX II, MicroVAX III,
7		MicroVAX 3600/3800/3900, MicroVAX 3300/3400/3500,
8		MicroVAX 2000/VAXstation 2000 and some VAXstation 3100.
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10	Networking:
11		DEUNA/DELUA Unibus ethernet, DEQNA/DELQA Q22 bus ethernet
12		and LANCE chip where available.
13
14	Serial lines:
15		DHU11/DHV11/DL11/DLV11/DZ11/DZQ11/DZV11 Unibus/Q22 bus
16		asynchronous lines and DZ11-compatible lines on
17		VAXstations.
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19	Disks:
20		UDA50 Unibus MSCP controller, KDA50/RQDX1/2/3 Q22 bus
21		MSCP controller, KDB50 BI-bus MSCP controller, MFM and
22		SCSI controllers on VAXstations, RP04/05/06/07 and
23		RM02/03/05/80 Massbus disks, and Console RL02 on
24		VAX 8600. Some third-party controllers are also
25		known to work, other do not.
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27	Tapes:
28		TMSCP on Q22 bus (TK50/70), SCSI tapes on VAXstations.
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30The minimal configuration requires 2M of RAM and ~40MB of disk space,
31but the installation requires at least 4MB RAM and you probably do
32not want to run with anything less than that.
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34Here is a table of recommended HD partition sizes for a full install:
35	partition:	advise		needed
36	root (/)	20M		10M
37	user (/usr)	80M		45M
38	swap		(2 or 3 * RAM)
39	Anything else is up to you!
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