boesch@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Brian Boesch) (11/26/86)
------- Has anyone ported Berkely 4.2 or 4.3 to the NCR Tower32 cpu? We have one running system-V and would like to be more compatable with the rest of the computers on campus. Thanks in advance. boesch@su-shasta.EDU
ries@trwrb.UUCP (11/26/86)
In article <1012@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> boesch@Shasta.UUCP (Brian Boesch) writes: >------- >Has anyone ported Berkely 4.2 or 4.3 to the NCR Tower32 cpu? >We have one running system-V and would like to be more compatable >with the rest of the computers on campus. > >Thanks in advance. > > boesch@su-shasta.EDU While I don't know of a VAR that has a binary port of pure BSD for the Tower/32, I recently had the opportunity to spend some time with an NCR Tower/32 running SYSVR2 (and an ATT 3B/400 w/SYSVR3). First question, have you checked out the stuff in "/usr/ucb"? There are a fair amount of "standard" UCB utilities, including csh. Otherwise, you have got a head start on the Tower with its M68020 vs. the ATT's WE3200. I had the opportunity to (try to) port several megabytes of (generally 4.2 BSD) code to both machines. In general, the Tower really barfed* on about 10% of the code, while the ATT faired worse, about 40%. Anyway, the PD libraries for "strings" and "ndir" were the saving grace, once "job control" was conditionally compiled out. FWIW. Marc A. Ries sdcrdcf!---\ /--- fcomp!ries ihnp4!------\----- trwrb! --- ries ucbvax!-----/ * Define "barfed" as: 'You ain't getting this code to run on me, sucker!"