From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:07:00 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] 386BSD on Bochs & Qemu... In-Reply-To: <201004261903.36146.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> References: <130de1e4e4162da466b3dc04bbc53c70.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> <20100425022942.GA15137@dereel.lemis.com> <201004261903.36146.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> Message-ID: <20100426080700.GD15137@dereel.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 -- 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: