From: wkt@minnie.tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Subject: [TUHS] RE: Porting Unix v6 to i386
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:56:03 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200208222356.g7MNu3p63094@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020823072329.O72938@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> from Peter Jeremy at "Aug 23, 2002 07:23:29 am"
In article by Peter Jeremy:
> On 2002-Aug-22 14:52:23 -0600, russ <russell283 at attbi.com> wrote:
> >It seems as though there was considerable interest in Porting Unix v6 to
> >i386 some months ago.
Firstly, see http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Other/V6on286/
for someone who has already done this.
Then see http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Portable_CC/
for ports of pcc to 8086 and 80286. Note that these are now
covered by Caldera's BSD-style Ancient UNIX license.
> I've been mulling over something like this for some time. I haven't
> actually gotten very far because:
> 1) I hadn't found an open-source, 16-bit x86 C compiler that could run
> in 64K+64K. It looks like there may be some suitable candidates now.
pcc? What about Bruce Evan's bcc? If the planned architecture is a 286,
what about C68?
> 2) My planned target system succumbed to old age. (The HDD failed and
> the bios only provides a choice of specific 80 or 120MB sizes).
> Peter
8-)
Warren
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2002-08-22 20:52 russ
2002-08-22 21:23 ` Peter Jeremy
2002-08-22 23:56 ` Warren Toomey [this message]
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2002-07-08 1:09 ` [TUHS] " Warren Toomey
2002-07-08 10:33 ` Sven Dehmlow
2002-07-08 13:52 ` SZIGETI Szabolcs
2002-07-08 14:15 ` Warren Toomey
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2002-06-06 17:02 Mike Haertel
2002-06-11 22:31 ` Peter Jeremy
2002-06-11 22:52 ` Mike Haertel
2002-06-05 18:49 Ian King
2002-06-06 7:07 ` Szigeti Szabolcs
2002-06-06 10:20 ` Warren Toomey
[not found] <200206050222.g552MHm88208@minnie.tuhs.org>
2002-06-05 11:54 ` John Chung
2002-06-04 11:53 Szigeti Szabolcs
2002-06-04 23:34 ` Warren Toomey
2002-02-15 0:07 John Holden
[not found] <no.id>
2002-01-30 1:57 ` Aaron J. Grier
2002-01-30 9:18 ` P.A.Osborne
2002-01-30 18:00 ` Sven Dehmlow
2002-01-30 19:50 ` Johnny Billquist
2002-01-30 21:40 ` Michael Davidson
2002-01-31 10:26 ` P.A.Osborne
2002-01-31 18:51 ` Johnny Billquist
2002-02-01 10:27 ` P.A.Osborne
2002-01-31 19:04 ` Mike Haertel
2002-01-30 19:52 ` Mike Haertel
2002-01-30 20:54 ` M. Warner Losh
2002-01-30 22:47 ` Greg Lehey
2002-03-03 12:51 ` Cyrille Lefevre
2002-03-03 20:14 ` Peter Jeremy
2002-03-03 20:46 ` Tim Shoppa
2002-03-03 21:07 ` Peter Jeremy
2002-01-31 9:18 ` Lauri Aarnio
2002-01-31 11:00 ` P.A.Osborne
2002-01-31 16:09 ` Sven Dehmlow
2002-01-31 18:45 ` Lauri Aarnio
2002-02-01 0:42 ` Greg Lehey
2002-02-04 22:12 ` Michael Davidson
2002-02-05 10:42 ` P.A.Osborne
2002-02-06 16:36 ` Jeffrey S. Sharp
2002-02-07 10:23 ` P.A.Osborne
2002-01-30 22:44 ` Greg Lehey
2002-02-14 22:30 ` Aaron J. Grier
2002-02-15 3:08 ` Peter Jeremy
2002-02-15 8:08 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2002-02-04 22:23 norman
[not found] <E16WjYq-0005RL-00@mercury.ukc.ac.uk>
2002-02-04 9:33 ` P.A.Osborne
2002-02-04 10:57 ` Warren Toomey
2002-02-04 11:48 ` P.A.Osborne
[not found] <20020131102843.C19170@apple.ukc.ac.uk>
[not found] ` <200201311847.g0VIlHj41858@ducky.net>
2002-02-01 10:24 ` P.A.Osborne
2002-01-30 23:51 Grant Maizels
2002-01-30 21:52 John Holden
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