That would be right. The AViiONs would be the followup to the MVs, which in
turn were the follow ups to the Eclipses. Just retired a bunch with
sledgehammers. AViiONs actually come in two varieties - DG maintained the name
for their Intel server line as well.
To my knowledge, the MVs were pretty much proprietary hardware, so I would
expect that a port would be somewhat nasty...
-pjl
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:54:02 -0400 Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 04:33:51PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > If these are m88k based then I beloeve some people are already
> > looking at this on port-m88k@netbsd.org (I don't know if they've
> > had time to get far :)
>
> I don't think they are. Aren't the MVx000 series machines Eclipse
> descendents? IIRC the Eclipse was vaguely along the lines of a 32-bit
> PDP-8 or -12, given its heritage (from the Nova, which was a 16-bit -8
> clone built by people who didn't get on board the -11 architecture at DEC).
>
> I thought all the 88k machines were called "Aviion".
>
> Thor
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