[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?
> Thanks in advance!

I may have something for you:

  -rw-r--r--  1 15 wheel  1,204,371  9 Sep  2009 minix-1.5.10.tar.gz
  -rw-r--r--  1 15 wheel    188,964 10 Sep  2009 minix-extra.tar.gz
  -r--r--r--  1 15 wheel 15,247,252 18 Dec  1994 minix.tar.gz

Don't be put off by the dates of the archives; the programs are mainly
from 1992 and 1993.  They're all on http://www.lemis.com/grog/tmp,
which is not readable.  In particular minix.tar.gz could be useful.
Take a look and let me know; there's more to search.

The programs won't stay there; expect wkt to tell you where the end
up, once we have established exactly what they are.

Greg
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