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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Memory-resident Unix system?
Message-ID: <5865@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 17-Nov-84 22:17:29 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 17 22:17:29 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Nov-84 02:41:05 EST
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab
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> Is there a version of Unix that provides minimal functionality?  We would
> like to hook an existing driver to an existing application program and get
> it to run on a special-purpose board.  Essentially, we would like to use
> just enough Unix-glue so that the driver has the functions it expects, and
> the application sees enough of the "system calls" so that it is happy,
> and eliminate the portion of Unix that would be unneeded.

AT&T UNIXes come with a "stand-alone" system that is used to build
versions of dd, cat, etc. for use under the "stand-alone shell".
The "scc" utility compiles for this environment, using run-time
support from lib2.a.  This looks like it might be close to what you want.