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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5320 ; Wed, 23 Dec 92 10:01:10 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!agate!agate.berkeley.edu!cgd From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD on HP3500s? Date: 20 Dec 92 20:49:31 Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us Lines: 55 Message-ID: <CGD.92Dec20204931@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> References: <1gtgn3INN2av@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> <21250002@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.cs.berkeley.edu In-reply-to: reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com's message of Sun, 20 Dec 1992 13:46:51 GMT In article <21250002@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool) writes: > I suppose you mean with HP3500 an Apollo domain 3500 workstation. >I dont't think this will be a trivial task, as the 3500 works with an >68030. So you should do a complete port of the os to that processor. >I don't know if anybody is doing that. Porting the os starts with a >port of a C compiler to the 'new' archtecture. Mabe you can use the >existing Domain C compiler to port the gnu C compiler. But this is >only the start of an os port..... Actually, i was working on a port of 4.4 to the DN3500/DN4500, but for lack of time, never got too far... I actually found that it wasn't too hard to set up a reasonable development environment under Domain/OS (10.1 at that time, i think...), w/ the stuff off of the tape which Keith Bostic gave me... (which doesn't exist any more, but you couldn't have anyway... 8-) the gnu c compiler, as disted in net/2 (and probably 386bsd) has full 680x0 support -- for the hp300. just modify a few things, and set it up to give you one or two unique symbols, and you win. > You should also write new device drivers for ithe domain peripheral >controllers. This is not a simple task. Unless you intend to become >the Willaim Jolitz of the 68000 community! arguable... 8-) the ethernet board in the DN[34]500 machines are the 3COM 3c501 or 3ced some light as to what's going on. I should probably add that I've set the disk up using my own disktab. I set up the a and c partitions so that they begin at cyl 244, sector 0, head 0 while using DOS-- when using the whole drive they were at cyl 0. Thanks for anything! :-) Steve -- Steve Gerakines | steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us | "I have a three user 386BSD TV license." - me +1 (508)664-0149 | From terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) 724989083 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST Message-ID: <1992Dec16.221634.4879@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT) References: <1992Dec14.185028.9757@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1gksolINNmkg@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> <mathias.724467456@sune.st