From: dugo@xs4all.nl (Jacob Goense)
Subject: [TUHS] Code bloat
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2017 15:10:24 +0100 [thread overview]
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On 2017-02-08 14:10, jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com wrote:
> After I had pasted a bunch of 386BSD pl0.24 + a CVS export of 0.8 I
> did get a booting system.
I remember that Victor Frankenstein ;) Proved how close these 2 were.
> Then I found an old ftp site that had 0.8
> I made a mirror of it, then it disappeared.
Very glad that piece of history got unearthed.
> I did some minor work on installing it on Bochs years ago, and VMware,
> from what I recall, NetBSD 1.0/1.1 can boot 386BSD’s kernel, while
> the 386BSD boot diskette didn’t work under emulation, NetBSD’s
> does, and I used that to kickstart an installation. Same with the
> boot blocks on the harddisk image.
386BSD is now bootable in Bochs, with very, very specific settings.
One that works at:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dugoh/tobochs/master/bochsrc
Back then it required a patch against bochs too as the boot blocks
do some truly weird stuff with the PIC (polling OCW3?), something
most emulators don't implement or even barf on.
These 2 little marvels didn't have much bloat, but the Bostification
had already set in. My idea of a true diet x86 UNIX system would be
a report of Tahoe without resorting to gcc/gas or anything else that
smells like RMS.
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-07 3:03 [TUHS] How Unix brings people together, or it's a small Doug McIlroy
2017-02-07 4:06 ` Marc Rochkind
2017-02-07 23:10 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-07 23:38 ` Steve Johnson
2017-02-08 2:55 ` [TUHS] Code bloat (was: How Unix brings people together, or it's a small...) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-02-08 3:47 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-08 3:56 ` Jason Stevens
2017-02-08 8:25 ` Wesley Parish
2017-02-08 9:57 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-08 11:21 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-08 11:59 ` [TUHS] Code bloat (was: How Unix brings people together, or it'sa small...) jsteve
2017-02-08 12:24 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-08 12:29 ` [TUHS] Code bloat Jacob Goense
2017-02-08 12:57 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-08 13:10 ` jsteve
2017-02-08 14:10 ` Jacob Goense [this message]
2017-02-08 14:34 ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-08 14:43 ` Brantley Coile
2017-02-08 15:09 ` Dan Cross
2017-02-08 15:26 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-08 15:18 ` Jason Stevens
2017-02-08 16:25 ` Tony Finch
2017-02-09 14:03 ` Jacob Goense
2017-02-09 14:41 ` jsteve
2017-02-09 15:03 ` Jacob Goense
2017-02-09 15:08 ` Jason Stevens
2017-02-09 15:30 ` Tony Finch
2017-02-09 16:14 ` Warner Losh
2017-02-09 23:38 ` [TUHS] Free/NetBSD revision history (was Code bloat) Jacob Goense
2017-02-10 4:11 ` Warner Losh
2017-02-10 4:17 ` Warner Losh
2017-02-08 13:56 ` [TUHS] Code bloat (was: How Unix brings people together, or it's a small...) Paul Ruizendaal
[not found] ` <CAH1jEzZqRPYenwzBbUwFVanA-NVvWMGzYiADVoAXCDOqnUrMrg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-02-09 3:02 ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Nick Downing
2017-02-09 9:19 ` [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2017-02-09 9:58 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-09 10:08 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-02-09 16:36 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-09 16:42 ` Warner Losh
2017-02-09 16:49 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-09 17:24 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-02-09 17:27 ` [TUHS] offtopic: broadband (redirect from bloat) Larry McVoy
2017-02-09 19:05 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-02-09 22:48 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-09 19:54 ` [TUHS] Code bloat (was: How Unix brings people together, Corey Lindsly
2017-02-09 20:08 ` pechter
2017-02-09 20:30 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-09 23:47 ` Jacob Goense
2017-02-09 21:06 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-09 21:02 ` [TUHS] Code bloat (was: How Unix brings people together, or it's a small...) Joerg Schilling
2017-02-09 16:58 ` [TUHS] Code bloat William Pechter
2017-02-09 19:50 ` [TUHS] Code bloat (was: How Unix brings people together, or it's a small...) Clem Cole
2017-02-08 5:37 ` Peter Jeremy
2017-02-08 12:16 ` [TUHS] How Unix brings people together, or it's a small ches@Cheswick.com
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