From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usagi.tsukino@pinku.zzn.com (Steve Nickolas) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:45:45 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] While on the subject of 32V ... Message-ID: <28065AD6560527342A34399F144E81CB@usagi.tsukino.pinku.zzn.com> >From: Pat Villani >Sent: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:35:40 -0400 >To: tuhs at tuhs.org >Subject: [TUHS] While on the subject of 32V ... >Folks, >I recently copied down the 32V source, and compiled the kernel with >gcc. Much to my surprise, most of it compiled. I then split out the >machine dependent versus the machine independent files (loose >classification :-), and compiled again. Naturally, in both cases, you >could not actually build a kernel because there are vax specific .s >files, but the individual C files compiled. Not a bad start. Whew. Goes to show something about GCC backward compatibility. >As a result, I've been giving serious consideration to porting it to >Intel IA32 platforms. It's much simpler than the unix I worked on >until last year (Tru64, aka OSF/1 and Digital UNIX), and the 32V >kernel is only a little bigger than the original FreeDOS kernel I >wrote. The Caldera license is pretty much a BSD license, which could >be considered an open source license. This means I should be able to >work on it without worrying about IP, although I'd still need >management approval. It's basically the old (with advertising) BSD license, AFAICT. >Should I undertake such an project, would there be enough interest to >justify the effort? I for one would be interested... :) >Pat -uso.