donn@rice.EDU (Donn Baumgartner) (09/09/87)
I am interested in hearing of anyone else that might be involved (or desires to be involved) in port 4.3 bsd to the PC/AT. I got involved with Doug Gilmore (formerly at illnois) in just such a port, and would like to reduce any duplication of effort - if such exists. Please reply to me directly (donn@rice.edu). Current status of the project: we have a running kernel (pretty stable), and various device drivers. We could use some help with the rest of the device drivers, as currently there are only a few of us available on a part-time basis to work on this project. We have a native compilation system... just recently ported. If 4.3 bsd on a PC/AT interests you, send me mail. Simple bench marks confirm that the AT is faster than your average vax 11/780 (but that's not surprising really). Donn Baumgartner Rice University, Dept of CS Disclaimer: my research advisor would deny that I exist, much less have anything to do with my opinions...
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (09/09/87)
Sure, I'm sure I can interest people here in such a thing. -Ron
lmcvoy@eta.UUCP (09/10/87)
In article <9200@brl-adm.ARPA> donn@rice.EDU (Donn Baumgartner) writes: >send me mail. Simple bench marks confirm that the AT is faster than >your average vax 11/780 (but that's not surprising really). Huh?!?!? I ran compile benchmarks on a AT (1 Meg, 8mhz, 28ms 30 meg disk, running QNX) and they came out to be very similar to a VAX 750, a little tiny bit slower, actually. I've also sat down in front of an AT (??Mhz Zenith, 1.5meg, 28ms drive, running Microport Unix) and that felt a whole lot slower than a 750 (vi in particular was slower than sh*t to start up). What sort of AT are you running that you can say it's faster than a 780? I might be persuaded to get over my distaste for intel cpu's if your claim was true. -- Larry McVoy uucp: ...!{uiucuxc, rosevax, meccts, ihnp4!laidbak}!eta!lmcvoy arpa: eta!lmcvoy@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (09/14/87)
It's not fair to compare XENIX on the AT to 4.2BSD on a VAX. XENIX on your 780 would be pretty attrocious as well. =Ron