From: jonathan.naylor@ggaweb.ch (Jonathan Naylor)
Subject: [TUHS] Porting Unix v6 to i386
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:03:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02012822034503.20290@g4klx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02012717103901.00631@linux>
Hi Sven
I can't help feel that you've missed the point of wanting to port UNIX
edition 6 or 7 to the PC. Its a challenge, nothing more, nothing less. I have
run both editions on Bob Supniks excellent emulator (now with PDP-10 support
BTW) and they're great, but it'd be ultra cool to boot it directly on a PC.
I would guess that VMWare would be a great host, or maybe its open source
equivalents (Plex86 or Bochs) so that you could save the reboot cycles. I
would also try porting V7 instead of V6, at least initially. With so much
open source code out there, it'd be a relatively simple task to find C code
for IDE disc access and such like. I would even suggest getting older Linux
code from the 2.0.x days as its likely to be a little less complex, while
still being stable.
Just my 0.02 EURO.
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-28 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-27 16:10 Sven Dehmlow
2002-01-28 21:03 ` Jonathan Naylor [this message]
2002-01-29 13:47 ` Sven Dehmlow
2002-01-29 23:10 ` M. Warner Losh
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