22 Aug
2002
22 Aug
'02
11:56 p.m.
In article by Peter Jeremy:
On 2002-Aug-22 14:52:23 -0600, russ
<russell283(a)attbi.com> wrote:
>It seems as though there was considerable interest in Porting Unix v6 to
>i386 some months ago.
Firstly, see http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Other/V6on286/
for someone who has already done this.
Then see http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Portable_CC/
for ports of pcc to 8086 and 80286. Note that these are now
covered by Caldera's BSD-style Ancient UNIX license.
I've been mulling over something like this for
some time. I haven't
actually gotten very far because:
1) I hadn't found an open-source, 16-bit x86 C compiler that could run
in 64K+64K. It looks like there may be some suitable candidates now.
pcc? What about Bruce Evan's bcc? If the planned architecture is a 286,
what about C68?
2) My planned target system succumbed to old age.
(The HDD failed and
the bios only provides a choice of specific 80 or 120MB sizes).
Peter
8-)
Warren