Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!ogicse!pdxgate!eecs!berggren From: berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren) Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos Subject: Re: BSD UNIX for 386sx pc? Message-ID: <2426@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: 20 Apr 91 08:11:20 GMT References: <1991Apr18.150444.4735@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> <22451@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP Lines: 27 racine@yunexus.yorku.ca (Jeff Racine) writes: >In article <1991Apr18.150444.4735@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> wendling@fifi.univ-lyon1.fr (Pierre Wendling) writes: >>In article laca@vipunen.hut.fi (Laszlo C Balint) writes: >>>I have read somewhere, that Berkley CSRG (sp?) is porting the BSD UNIX >>>to the PC-s. >>Please post your answers, I'am very interested too ! >Yes, 4.2 BSD has been ported to the 80386 by the CSRG at UCB. They are >currently porting BSD 4.3. >For further details, see the Jan, Feb, and Mar issues of Dr. Doobs >Journal (a series of articles appear there describing the port). I am trying to get some more information on this project in detail (the DDJ series appears to me more of an intro to UNIX than it is about the actuall porting of BSD) and possibly the source. Despite a large number of mailings to both 'william' and 'lynne', I have received no response over the past three months. Anybody have any luck or information, post or e-mail. Thanx. -e.b. ============================================================================== Eric Berggren | "Life is a Turing Test; Computer Science/Eng. | We're all automatons!" berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu | - (click, whir, buzz, chirp)