Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!gatech!akgua!lcuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mhuxt!mhuxr! mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!doug From: d...@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: 4.3BSD for the AT Message-ID: <21900172@uiucuxc> Date: Mon, 8-Sep-86 22:33:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucuxc.21900172 Posted: Mon Sep 8 22:33:00 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Sep-86 02:08:54 EDT Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #N:uiucuxc:21900172:000:645 Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!doug Sep 8 21:33:00 1986 I am wondering how many people have heard through the grapevine of my project to port 4.3BSD to the AT. If you have heard please drop me a short note on how you found out about the project. Thanks in advance, Doug Gilmore d...@uiucuxc.cso.uiuc.edu P.S.: I am sorry I do not have the time give a progress report. I can say that a distribution that is usable by those comfortable with kernel hacking should be ready in several weeks. The project is a pro bona effort in the Berkeley Unix tradition. Your institution will be able to receive a copy of it if it has a System V.3 license. There will most likely be a small distribution fee.
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!gatech!cuae2!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs! uiucuxc!doug From: d...@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: 4.3BSD for the PC-AT Message-ID: <21900184@uiucuxc> Date: Mon, 3-Nov-86 03:46:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucuxc.21900184 Posted: Mon Nov 3 03:46:00 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Nov-86 21:14:59 EST Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #N:uiucuxc:21900184:000:1054 Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!doug Nov 3 02:46:00 1986 I am putting together an alpha release tape that I will be happy to send to those who are willing to help out with the porting process. If you are interested, send me a message and I will contact you about the details. Note that the native development environment has not been ported yet so you will need to use a VAX running 4.2/3BSD for compilation. At the moment only a driver for the Ungermann Bass ethernet card is written though it would be straight forward to write drivers for other ethernet boards. AT&T licensing restrictions require that your institution be licensed for System V release 3. Only drivers for the hard disk, and an async. port (used as a console) have been written. Also the swapped-based memory management code has not been debugged. The current plan is not to put any effort into debugging swapping since a virtual segmentation System V kernel will soon be available from AT&T/Intel and it seems more reasonble to spend the time integrating and debugging that code instead. Doug Gilmore d...@uiucuxc.edu