From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:29:42 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] 386BSD on Bochs & Qemu... In-Reply-To: <130de1e4e4162da466b3dc04bbc53c70.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> References: <130de1e4e4162da466b3dc04bbc53c70.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <20100425022942.GA15137@dereel.lemis.com> 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. Greg -- Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/email/signed-mail.php for more details. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: not available URL: