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! 18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/romp</font></h2>
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! 22: <p>
! 23: OpenBSD/romp is an effort to port OpenBSD to the IBM 6150 and 6151 machines,
! 24: also known as RT/PC. These machines were IBM's first try into the workstation
! 25: world, in 1986, and are the ancestors of the RS/6000 machines of today.
! 26: </p>
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! 29: A (very quiet) mailing list dedicated to the OpenBSD/romp porting effort is
! 30: available at <u><font color="#23238e">romp@openbsd.org</font></u>.
! 31: To join the OpenBSD/romp mailing list, send a message body of <b>"subscribe
! 32: romp"</b> to <a href="mailto:majordomo@openbsd.org">majordomo@openbsd.org</a>.
! 33: Please be sure to check our <a href="mail.html">mailing list policy</a> before
! 34: subscribing.
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! 38: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
! 39: <p>
! 40: <ul>
! 41: <li><a href="#history">Past history of the port</a>
! 42: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
! 43: <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
! 44: </ul>
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1.10 ! miod 48: <a name="history"></a>
! 49: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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51: <p>
1.10 ! miod 52: Mark Dapoz and Roger Florkowski ported a mix of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD to the
! 53: romp in the late 1980's, for educational sites not wanting to run AIX on their
! 54: machines. This port was named ``AOS''.
! 55: </p>
! 56:
! 57: <p>
! 58: The code eventually was released to the community in the late 1990's, with
! 59: uncertain license terms. People on the list started to play with the code,
! 60: fixing bugs in it, making it compilable with gcc, and slowly filling the gaps
! 61: between the 4.3BSD era and modern times. This is still a very quiet work in
! 62: progress...
! 63: </p>
! 64:
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! 66: <a name="status"></a>
! 67: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
! 68:
! 69: <p>
! 70: There is currently no code publically available, however, people are working on
! 71: code and patches flow privately or on the list from time to time.
! 72: Contact <a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">Miodrag Vallat</a> if you want more
! 73: information.
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! 78: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
! 79: </strong></font></h3>
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! 82: <ul>
! 83: <li>Fix romp backend bugs in gcc
! 84: <li>Write code for binutils supporting the romp, rather than fixing the
! 85: romp-specific as and ld; eventually, move to ELF
! 86: <li>Get hardware documentation
! 87: </ul>
! 88: </p>
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