[TUHS] Apple Darwin 0.1 and 0.3 sort of running on x86!

[TUHS] Apple Darwin 0.1 and 0.3 sort of running on x86!

[Jason Stevens]

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

[TUHS] Apple Darwin 0.1 and 0.3 sort of running on x86!

[Derrik Walker v2.0]

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


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[TUHS] Apple Darwin 0.1 and 0.3 sort of running on x86!

[jsteve]

My real goal is to update NeXTSTEP, but failing that updating Rhapsody and getting it booting on something modern is OK too.



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From: Derrik Walker v2.0
Sent: Tuesday, 25 April 2017 11:05 AM
To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Apple Darwin 0.1 and 0.3 sort of running on x86!

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



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