[TUHS] Bruce Evans 386 Minix patches & compiler source

[Jonathan Gray via TUHS]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 11:27:22AM +0100, Jason Stevens via TUHS 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.

the version in minix 386 archives (without full sources):
bccbin16.tar.Z
bccbin32.tar.Z
bcclib.tar.Z
bcc.tar.Z

> 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?

FreeBSD has Bruce's C Compiler (bcc) in ports as devel/bcc
http://distcache.freebsd.org/ports-distfiles/bcc.tar.gz
VERSION: 1995 Mar 12 10:29 UTC

same file available at
http://fare.tunes.org/files/asm/bcc-95.3.12.src.tgz

An earlier (1991/1992) version of the as/ld part of it
https://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/bin/as86.src.tar.Z