MCKINNEY@uthscsa.edu (02/27/91)
- Mike Almquist (almquist@cis.udel.edu) writes: >I've been playing with Minix for a while and am currently hacking >out some perhaps useful code. I was talking to a friend of mine >recently and I said, "All that BSD PD code shouldn't go to waste - its a >shame." And his response was, "Well, I remeber a year or two ago >someone ported the BSD code to a 386". Anyone know of this project? >Anyone know where I might be able to get a looky at this beast? Is >it just rumor - anyone else hear about it? Some going ons in the BSD >port may prove useful to fellow Minix users. Any info would be >greatly appreciated. The January 1991 (#172) issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal has an article on this very subject. It is entitled "Porting UNIX to the 386: A practical approach". The author is William Frederick Jolitz. The author suggests that "those of you who can meet University of California requirements should obtain a copy of 386BSD from the University of California". No mention is given of what those requirements are. I have contacted Jolitz but have not yet received a reply. The article lists his address as "william@berkeley.edu" or "uunet!william". I would be interested if anyone else knows anymore about this. Jim McKinney (mckinney@uthscsa.edu)