[TUHS] 386BSD on Bochs & Qemu...

[Wesley Parish]

It appears you're right about the Dr Dobbs copyright - no copyright notices.

Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com>:
> [resequenced]
> 
> On Monday, 26 April 2010 at 19:03:33 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >> On Saturday, 24 April 2010 at 16:28:41 +0200, Jacob Goense wrote:
> >>>> I don't know if this is interesting to anyone, but I thought I'd
> share
> >>>> that 386BSD will install on Bochs (although slowly, and it's prone
> to
> >>>> crashing), however once the first patchkit is installed, it'll then
> run
> >>>> on Qemu! (0.11.0, it seems the new bios layout of 0.12 is
> incompatible)
> >>>
> >>> Yes, I think it is very interesting to see what BSD was like on an
> x86
> >>> around the time of the forks into Net- and FreeBSD. You can feel
> the
> >>> itch to roll your own xBSD when messing around with it.
> >>>
> >>> It got me curious about where 386BSD ended though. Did anyone save
> >>> the 386BSD Reference CD-ROM Release 1.0 from /dev/null?
> >>
> >> Yes, I have a copy. It was pretty much useless. All the
> >> documentation was in some Microsoft format, and I couldn't read it.
> >> Unfortunately Dr Dobbs has a copyright on it, or I could upload it
> for
> >> the curious.
> >
> > FWLIW, I also bought a copy, way back when, and I've just made an
> > unencumbered version, containing only the 386BSD binaries, the
> > 386BSD source trees, and the manuals.
> 
> That was my first intention too. But read the copyright. You're not
> allowed to do distribute that.
> 
> > It contains only the BSD-copyright material; everything else appears
> > to be Dr Dobbs-copyrighted, thus off-limits; but I'll upload the
> > tar.bz2 file (2MB) if people feel it's needed.
> 
> Did you find a Dr Dobbs copyright notice anywhere on the CD? Or
> elsewhere? All I saw was a printed mention of Dr Dobbs along with the
> Jolitzes and UCB around the bottom of the CD.
> 
> Greg
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