[TUHS] Bruce Evans 386 Minix patches & compiler source

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey via TUHS]

On Monday,  8 September 2025 at 11:27:22 +0100, The UNIX Heritage Society wrote:
> Hi all!
> It's been quite a while since I was messing with Minix386 back in the days
> when Bruce Evans released a set of patches to bring 386 support.
> I'm pretty sure over on oldlinux.org the patch set exists, but I can only
> find the one set of binaries of his 386 toolchain.
> I know it eventually evolved into the bin86 toolchain that Linus would go on
> to use to create real mode boot code, but I don't know if any of the source
> code to his 1991/1992 386 toolchain ever got published?

I received Bruce's computers when he died, and I briefly looked into
some of the data on the disks.  If you can give me some search strings
for file names, I can take a look and possibly find something.

Greg
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