[TUHS] COHERENT sources released under 3-clause BSD license.
Jacob Goense
dugo at xs4all.nl
Wed Jan 7 05:50:23 AEST 2015
On 2015-01-06 20:38, Milo Velimirović wrote:
> On Jan 6, 2015, at 12:41 PM, random832 at fastmail.us wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015, at 11:48, Rico Pajarola wrote:
>>> adding the list back
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Michael Kerpan <mjkerpan at kerpan.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is a cool development. Does this code build into a working
>>>> version of
>>>> Coherent or is this mainly useful to study? Either way, it should be
>>>> interesting to look at the code for a clone specifically aimed at
>>>> low-end
>>>> hardware.
>>
>> In the "distrib" directory there are four files exactly 1440 kb in
>> size
>> - maybe someone could try loading those into a VM/Emulator?
>
> I had exactly that thought after I downloaded the tar ball this
> morning. Any suggestions for a VM config that would facilitate this
> would be welcome. Otherwise I’m going to stumble through virtual box
> and see what happens.
A quick try with bochs bails out on me, but at least reveals the
version:
COHERENT Tertiary boot Version 1.2.7
If installing COHERENT, please type "begin".
? begin
Loading COHERENT.
-
Loading COHERENT data.
[-screen clears-]
*** COHERENT Version 4.2.10 - 386 Mode. 5712KB free memory. ***
Color. NDP=387. 2528 buffers. 2521 buckets. 64 clists.
256KB kalloc pool. 0 KB phys pool.
Cyrix OEM CPU Detected
Copyright 1982, 1994 Mark Williams Company
fd0: <Door Open>
PANIC : fsminit: no rootdev(4,15)
Call backtrace: -> ffc28142 -> ffc19129 -> ffc002b6
If you want to run COHERENT in a VM this is mandatory reading.
http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-life-with-coherent-part-1.html
http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.nl/2012/05/my-life-with-coherent-part-2.html
/Jacob
More information about the TUHS
mailing list