From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ephrem@bensusan.net (Ephrem Hugh Bensusan) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:19:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] So now that the source is finally out... In-Reply-To: <20020125111637.F5968@apple.ukc.ac.uk> Message-ID: It seems that there is a distribution of Venix hanging about, but I believe it is for the DEC PRO 350 or 380. So I don't know how useful it might be in this context. In any case, one can find it at: http://www.os2site.com/sw/dec/pro/venix/ -- Ephrem Hugh Bensusan EMail: ephrem at bensusan.net Phone: 352.687.3757 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT/CS d? s--:+ a C++++$ UB/L++++$ P++> L+++$ E W++(+++)$ N++> o? K++ w-- O M? V-- PS+++(--) PE Y+ PGP+ t++* 5- X++ R tv- b+++> DI-- D+ G++ e* h----(-)* r+++ y++++(+++(--)) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, P.A.Osborne wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:27:25AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > Real as in 286 or as in 8088 :-). > > Yup, otherwise you start mucking around with the protected mode > shuffle to 32 bits and I have been burnt by that before. The ix86 > chips are startup from cold in 16bit mode so it makes life easier. > > > I've love to have a v7 port to my > > DEC Rainbow 100, which isn't too IBM-PC-like other than the fact that > > both have an 8088. There was a 8088 port of V7 (or maybe it was v6) > > to the Rainbow marketed under the name of venix, but no one seems to > > be able to find a distribution anymore. > > Oooh that would be so usefull and save so much mucking around. > > > gcc can compile K&R, but the language has evolved some since the v7 > > days. =*, =+, etc became *=, +=, etc. There are some other subtle > > things too that I don't recall off the top of my head, but which vexed > > the comp.lang.c news groups in the early 1980's. > > That makes things a challenge. Still the source of the kernel is > around 10K lines IIRC and going through it in stages doesnt make life > too painfull. > > I must be mad thinking about this again.... > > > paul > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >