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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!psgrain!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!newsserver.dsi.bc.ca!rsb From: rsb@dsi.bc.ca (Rob Ballantyne) Subject: Porting 4.4-Lite to VAX Message-ID: <1994May11.190620.29816@dsi.bc.ca> Organization: Dynapro Systems Inc Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 19:06:20 GMT Lines: 31 Thought I'd ask here first. We have a VAX 3100 that is about to become unused soon. I though as a project I might try to port 4.4BSD-Lite to the machine. This might have to be a group effort, right now I don't know how much of the O/S would have to be built, and how much would have to be re-written. So the questions are: - What (and how much) exactly is missing from 4.4BSD that would have to be constructed from scratch? - What (and how much) would have to be re-written for the VAX. - How open is DEC about its hardware? Would I be able to find out the low level stuff I need to? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Rob Ballantyne | _____ | | email: rsb@dsi.bc.ca | | | | Dynapro Systems Inc | -----------O----------- | | New Westminster, BC, CANADA | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Rob Ballantyne | _____ | | email: rsb@dsi.bc.ca | | | | Dynapro Systems Inc | -----------O----------- |