[TUHS] Porting 2.11 BSD

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Wed Nov 25 10:09:18 AEST 2015



On 11/23/15 12:40 AM, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> The undergrads who used that system to learn Unix ported many
> a BSD
> utility to that system (at least the ones that weren't too RAM-hungry),
> starting with BerkNet so we could move files around easily & have E-mail.
>
>

That reminds me that you are going to run into utilities that use the
overlaying ld that jumps through hoops to get large programs (vi) to run 
in a 16 bit address space.

I'll dig through my archives and see if there was a Z8000 version of pcc
in the MIT compiler kit.






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