[net.unix-wizards] porting UNIX

gert@ttds.UUCP (Gert Svensson) (12/31/83)

Some students in my course in operating systems have come up with the
idea that they will port UNIX BSD4.2 to a locally developed computer
with a NS16032 processor as their  project assignment
(Yes, I know it will take some time !).
Does anybody know of any useful additional stuff to read (not
contained in BSD4.2) ?

	Gert Svensson
	..!mcvax!enea!ttds!gert

ron%brl-vgr@sri-unix.UUCP (01/05/84)

From:      Ron Natalie <ron@brl-vgr>

You could always peek at National's own 4BSD port to the 16032.

-Ron

Provan@LLL-MFE.ARPA (09/07/84)

I'm sure some of you have been involved with an effort to port C or
UNIX to a different machine.  How difficult is this?  Is there a C
compiler out there which has been designed to bootstrap easily into
a new enviroment?  I envision something that requires some sort of
minimal C compiler written in the native language to boot a more
sophisticated C compiler written in C.  Is there any such beast?

Thanks.  Please airect replies to me as I am not on the list.

						don