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* [COFF] Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
@ 2022-09-10  1:53 Grant Taylor via COFF
  2022-09-10  2:05 ` [COFF] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Grant Taylor via COFF @ 2022-09-10  1:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: COFF

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Hi,

Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?  Wikipedia doesn't 
like my IPv6 address at home nor my VPS and I've given up trying to find 
a way to make the edit myself without breaking IPv6 on my network.

The second paragraph of the history page states the following:

"The porting process with code was extensively documented in an 18-part 
series written by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz in Dr. Dobb's Journal 
beginning in January 1991."

There are only 17 parts to the series.  My authoritative source is the 
DDJ DVD available on The Internet Archive.  There are 17 articles, 
month's listed below.

In case my ability to find the article sis called into question, the 
Tracing BSD System Calls article from DDJ March 1998 states the 
following in the fourth paragraph.

"(see the DDJ series "Porting UNIX to the 386," by William and Lynne 
Jolitz, January-November 1991 and February-July 1992)"

01 - 91-Jan - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: A PRACTICAL APPROACH - Designing 
the software specification
02 - 91-Feb - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: THREE INITIAL PC UTILITIES - 
Getting to the hardware
03 - 91-Mar - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: THE STANDALONE SYSTEM - Creating 
a protected-mode standalone C programming environment
04 - 91-Apr - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386 LANGUAGE TOOLS CROSS SUPPORT - 
Developing the initial utilities
05 - 91-May - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386 THE INITIAL ROOT FILESYSTEM - 
Completing the toolset
06 - 91-Jun - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386 RESEARCH & THE COMMERCIAL SECTOR - 
Where does BSD fit in?
07 - 91-Jul - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: A STRIPPED-DOWN KERNEL - Onto the 
initial utilities
08 - 91-Aug - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: THE BASIC KERNEL - Overview and 
initialization
09 - 91-Sep - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: THE BASIC KERNEL - 
Multiprogramming and Multitasking, Part One
10 - 91-Oct - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: THE BASIC KERNEL - 
Multiprogramming and Multitasking, Part II
11 - 91-Nov - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: THE BASIC KERNEL - Device 
autoconfiguration
12 - 92-Feb - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: DEVICE DRIVERS - Drivers for the 
basic kernel
13 - 92-Mar - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386 DEVICE DRIVERS - Entering, 
exiting, and masking processor interrupts
14 - 92-Apr - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386 DEVICE DRIVERS - Getting into and 
out of interrupt routines
15 - 92-May - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: MISSING PIECES, PART 1 - 
Completing the 386BSD kernel
16 - 92-Jun - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386 MISSING PIECES II - Completing the 
386BSD kernel
17 - 92-Jul - PORTING UNIX TO THE 386 THE FINAL STEP - Running light 
with 386BSD



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Grant. . . .
unix || die


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* [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
  2022-09-10  1:53 [COFF] Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me? Grant Taylor via COFF
@ 2022-09-10  2:05 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
  2022-09-10  2:26   ` Grant Taylor via COFF
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey @ 2022-09-10  2:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Grant Taylor; +Cc: COFF

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On Friday,  9 September 2022 at 19:53:50 -0600, COFF wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me? ...
>
> The second paragraph of the history page states the following:
>
> "The porting process with code was extensively documented in an 18-part
> series written by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz in Dr. Dobb's Journal
> beginning in January 1991."
>
> There are only 17 parts to the series.  My authoritative source is the
> DDJ DVD available on The Internet Archive.  There are 17 articles,
> month's listed below.

Done.

Do you have an idea about how this error crept in?

Greg
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* [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
  2022-09-10  2:05 ` [COFF] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
@ 2022-09-10  2:26   ` Grant Taylor via COFF
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Grant Taylor via COFF @ 2022-09-10  2:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: coff

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On 9/9/22 8:05 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> Done.

Thank you!

> Do you have an idea about how this error crept in?

No, I do not.

I came to this article after reading about the DDJ DVD archive on the 
geeks mailing list.  I was sensitive to the emails about DDJ because 
I've been looking to acquire the issues (or at least articles) with the 
Porting Unix to the 386 articles in them.

Now I have them!  :-D



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