gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Gary D Duzan) (07/23/89)
What exactly are the minimal requirements for a BSD 4.3 system? Does it
need a 32 bit machine? What assumptions does it make about the C compiler
compiling it? I am not worried about what makes a good or useful BSD system,
just what is necessary to get it running. Thanx.
Gary Duzan
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In article <4036@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Gary D Duzan) writes: > > What exactly are the minimal requirements for a BSD 4.3 system? Does it >need a 32 bit machine? What assumptions does it make about the C compiler >compiling it? I am not worried about what makes a good or useful BSD system, >just what is necessary to get it running. Thanx. > Hmmm...depends on your criteria of minimal. Cost? Chip count? Memory? Disk? Speed? I/O? MMU sophistication? If you have a good enough team, you can port it to most anything. For example, most of the functionality of 4.3 has been replicated in BSD 2.{8,9,10}, which runs on the later DEC PDP-11 machines. The PDP-11 is a 16-bit machine with a very primative memory management scheme (it's still one of the nicer architectures around). A very sharp team at Rice has ported the bulk of 4.3 to the acursed Intel 80286, a 16-bit machine with a a perverse memory management scheme (N.B. lets not wage another war over the 286, its been done far to many times here. Save it for alt.computers.religion, which i mercifully don't get. Also, don't e-mail me concerning the Rice 4.3 port). More than 32-bits is not a problem either, as evidenced by the several ports to 64-bit 'super-{micro,mini}'. ...ken seefried iii ken@gatech.edu ken seefried iii ...!{akgua, allegra, amd, harpo, hplabs, ken@gatech.edu masscomp, rlgvax, sb1, uf-cgrl, unmvax, ut-ngp, ut-sally}!gatech!ken