Will FreeBSD 13 install/run on PDP-11 or VAX?

decuser

decuser

Two parts - is it possible/supported and is anybody doing it? I installed NetBSD on my simulated VAX and it worked, and supposedly OpenBSD supports VAX, but neither are as familiar to me as FreeBSD.
 
From a very long time ago, I seem to recall that NetBSD's project page does contain some good instructions about making a port for a different architecture... I would not recommend trying to port FreeBSD to VAX. But if you start messing around, and are willing to put in some time and effort, and are open to learning stuff that may not appear related - then nothing is out of question. Good luck.
 
decuser said:
Two parts - is it possible/supported and is anybody doing it? I installed NetBSD on my simulated VAX and it worked, and supposedly OpenBSD supports VAX, but neither are as familiar to me as FreeBSD.
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The closest you could get "out of the box" would be a (much) older FreeBSD release on an Alpha. According to this, FreeBSD 6.4 was the last release to support the Alpha architecture.

Even if any of these were possible, the slowest low-end x86-64 notebook available today would far outperform an actual Alpha.

On the other hand, I run an emulated Alpha with OpenVMS under FreeBSD, using the AlphaVM Pro emulator.
 
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