From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dwalker@doomd.net (Derrik Walker v2.0) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 23:05:03 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Apple Darwin 0.1 and 0.3 sort of running on x86! In-Reply-To: <0F0B9BFC06289346B88512B91E55670D2FFB@EXCHANGE> References: <0F0B9BFC06289346B88512B91E55670D2FFB@EXCHANGE> Message-ID: <75697b97-c9a2-d70c-197e-6954d8b05a03@doomd.net> On 04/24/2017 09:50 PM, Jason Stevens wrote: > I don't know if this is of any interest to anyone here, but 1999 is 18 years > ago, so maybe it counts as old? > > Over on nextcomputers.org various users had found a backup of next68k.org > which included a wget of the old source > > http://nextftp.onionmixer.net/next.68k.org/otto/html/pub/Darwin/PublicSource > /Darwin/index.html > > So I found a copy of Rhapsody DR-2, the last binary version of this Mach > 2.5+4.4BSD and after a day got a kernel to build. Another day and I had it > interfacing to the driverkit to load drivers. > > After a post on reddit someone gave me a link to some kdx p2p network, where > they had a Darwin 0.3 toast image. > > using what I learned with Darwin 0.1 I got the 0.3 to build as well. > > I uploaded a bunch of stuff here: > https://sourceforge.net/projects/aapl-darwin/ > > although it seems to not let me upload the toast images themselves. > > I did slam together a minimal Darwin 0.3 qemu image that can sort-of boot to > single user mode. It's not even slightly useful, but it does show that it > works. > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/aapl-darwin/files/qemu-images/Darwin03_qemu > 090_24_4_2017.7z/download > Wow! Thanks. This is stuff I've not thought of in eons. I use to play around with early Darwin releases on my Power Mac I had at the time. I use to have a website dedicated to things I figured out. I even helped the author of the Mac Perl book, Chris Nandor, get his Darwin box ( which didn't have GUI at the time ), on the internet. - Derrik -- -- Derrik Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE dwalker at doomd.net "Those UNIX guys, they think weird!" -- John C. Dvorak -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3703 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: