Wouldn't it be nice (BSD port)
Brent Burton
n138ct at tamuts.tamu.edu
Thu Apr 11 14:45:32 AEST 1991
Forrie basically sez:
since BSD is so available it would be nice for a port.
I've _thought_ about this, too, so I downloaded the BSD 4.3 (tahoe) dist-
ribution to my U's unix host (tamuts). Here I created a listing of the
contents of the tar file. This listing is some 66k+ bytes - there is
a _lot_ of source code here. Of course, the 8 or so megabytes of decom-
pressed source contains code for vaxes, also.
Just seeing this source file listing is intimidating. And honestly, I'm
puzzled by the sheer number of files - I don't now where to start.
However, if anyone else has noticed, Dr. Dobb's Journal started a long
series of articles back in January about porting BSD to the 386. I have
the first article only, but I think if anyone wanted to do the UPC port,
the DDJ's articles are a must.
I do not believe _I'm_ the person for this - I don't have the time, but
if I did and I had the knowledge, I'd work on this. Hmm, maybe during
the summer I'll...
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| Brent P. Burton | n138ct at tamuts.tamu.edu |
| Texas A&M University | Computer Science/Physics |
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