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   <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/romp</font></h2>
   
 <h2>OpenBSD/romp</h2>  <hr>
   
   <p>
   OpenBSD/romp is an effort to port OpenBSD to the IBM 6150 and 6151 machines,
   also known as RT/PC. These machines were IBM's first try into the workstation
   world, in 1986, and are the ancestors of the RS/6000 machines of today.
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   A (very quiet) mailing list dedicated to the OpenBSD/romp porting effort is
   available at <u><font color="#23238e">romp@openbsd.org</font></u>.
   To join the OpenBSD/romp mailing list, send a message body of <b>"subscribe
   romp"</b> to <a href="mailto:majordomo@openbsd.org">majordomo@openbsd.org</a>.
   Please be sure to check our <a href="mail.html">mailing list policy</a> before
   subscribing.
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   <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
   <p>
   <ul>
     <li><a href="#history">Past history of the port</a>
     <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
     <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
   </ul>
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 <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>  <a name="history"></a>
   <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
   
 <p>  <p>
 A port of OpenBSD to the IBM PC RT series of machines ("romp") is currently  Mark Dapoz and Roger Florkowski ported a mix of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD to the
 being organized.  If you wish to help out in some way, please subscribe to  romp in the late 1980's, for educational sites not wanting to run AIX on their
 the mailing list devoted to the organization of, and the eventual port  machines. This port was named ``AOS''.
 itself:  romp@openbsd.org.   More information on the OpenBSD lists may  
 be found on the <a href="mail.html">mailing list page</a>.  
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   The code eventually was released to the community in the late 1990's, with
   uncertain license terms. People on the list started to play with the code,
   fixing bugs in it, making it compilable with gcc, and slowly filling the gaps
   between the 4.3BSD era and modern times. This is still a very quiet work in
   progress...
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 <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>  <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
   
   <p>
   There is currently no code publically available, however, people are working on
   code and patches flow privately or on the list from time to time.
   Contact <a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">Miodrag Vallat</a> if you want more
   information.
   </p>
   
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   <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
   </strong></font></h3>
   
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   <ul>
     <li>Fix romp backend bugs in gcc
     <li>Write code for binutils supporting the romp, rather than fixing the
         romp-specific as and ld; eventually, move to ELF
     <li>Get hardware documentation
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