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From: n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Wouldn't it be nice (BSD port)
Summary: bsd port
Keywords: BSD UNIX-PC
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Date: 11 Apr 91 04:45:32 GMT
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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@tamuts.tamu.edu   |
             | Texas A&M University | Computer Science/Physics |
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