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From: Provan@LLL-MFE.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: porting UNIX
Message-ID: <13216@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Sep-84 19:47:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  6 19:47:00 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Sep-84 07:10:23 EDT
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I'm sure some of you have been involved with an effort to port C or
UNIX to a different machine.  How difficult is this?  Is there a C
compiler out there which has been designed to bootstrap easily into
a new enviroment?  I envision something that requires some sort of
minimal C compiler written in the native language to boot a more
sophisticated C compiler written in C.  Is there any such beast?

Thanks.  Please airect replies to me as I am not on the list.

						don