From: wes.parish@paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish)
Subject: [TUHS] 386BSD on Bochs & Qemu...
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:33:38 +1200 (NZST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1272274418.4bd55df2c23b4@www.paradise.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100426080700.GD15137@dereel.lemis.com>
It appears you're right about the Dr Dobbs copyright - no copyright notices.
Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com>:
> [resequenced]
>
> On Monday, 26 April 2010 at 19:03:33 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >> On Saturday, 24 April 2010 at 16:28:41 +0200, Jacob Goense wrote:
> >>>> I don't know if this is interesting to anyone, but I thought I'd
> share
> >>>> that 386BSD will install on Bochs (although slowly, and it's prone
> to
> >>>> crashing), however once the first patchkit is installed, it'll then
> run
> >>>> on Qemu! (0.11.0, it seems the new bios layout of 0.12 is
> incompatible)
> >>>
> >>> Yes, I think it is very interesting to see what BSD was like on an
> x86
> >>> around the time of the forks into Net- and FreeBSD. You can feel
> the
> >>> itch to roll your own xBSD when messing around with it.
> >>>
> >>> It got me curious about where 386BSD ended though. Did anyone save
> >>> the 386BSD Reference CD-ROM Release 1.0 from /dev/null?
> >>
> >> Yes, I have a copy. It was pretty much useless. All the
> >> documentation was in some Microsoft format, and I couldn't read it.
> >> Unfortunately Dr Dobbs has a copyright on it, or I could upload it
> for
> >> the curious.
> >
> > FWLIW, I also bought a copy, way back when, and I've just made an
> > unencumbered version, containing only the 386BSD binaries, the
> > 386BSD source trees, and the manuals.
>
> That was my first intention too. But read the copyright. You're not
> allowed to do distribute that.
>
> > It contains only the BSD-copyright material; everything else appears
> > to be Dr Dobbs-copyrighted, thus off-limits; but I'll upload the
> > tar.bz2 file (2MB) if people feel it's needed.
>
> Did you find a Dr Dobbs copyright notice anywhere on the CD? Or
> elsewhere? All I saw was a printed mention of Dr Dobbs along with the
> Jolitzes and UCB around the bottom of the CD.
>
> Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-26 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-17 5:12 Jason Stevens
2010-04-17 19:10 ` Natalia Portillo
2010-04-18 1:12 ` Jason Stevens
2010-04-24 14:28 ` Jacob Goense
2010-04-24 18:06 ` Jason Stevens
2010-04-24 20:59 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2010-04-25 2:29 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-04-25 9:28 ` Jacob Goense
2010-04-25 17:32 ` Carl Lowenstein
2010-04-25 17:36 ` Jason Stevens
2010-04-26 3:23 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-04-26 5:22 ` Jason Stevens
2010-05-04 19:37 ` Jacob Goense
2010-05-04 19:41 ` Natalia Portillo
2010-05-04 18:26 ` Jacob Goense
2010-04-26 7:03 ` Wesley Parish
2010-04-26 8:07 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-04-26 9:33 ` Wesley Parish [this message]
2010-04-26 17:52 ` Jason Stevens
2010-04-28 2:30 ` Cyrille Lefevre
2010-04-30 7:58 ` [TUHS] UniFlex Jose R. Valverde
2010-04-30 15:38 ` Brad Spencer
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