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        !            16: <a href="index.html"><img alt="[OpenBSD]" height="30" width="141" src="images/smalltitle.gif" border="0"></a>
        !            17: <p>
        !            18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/romp</font></h2>
        !            19:
        !            20: <hr>
        !            21:
        !            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>
        !            27:
        !            28: <p>
        !            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.
        !            35: </p>
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1.10    ! miod       37: <a href="#toc"></a>
        !            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>
        !            45: </p>
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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:
        !            65: <hr>
        !            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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                     76: <hr>
1.10    ! miod       77: <a name="projects"></a>
        !            78: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
        !            79: </strong></font></h3>
        !            80:
        !            81: <p>
        !            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>
        !            89:
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        !            91: <a href="plat.html">
        !            92: <img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0" alt="Supported platforms">
        !            93: </a>
        !            94: <br>
        !            95: <small><a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a></small>
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1.10    ! miod       97: <small>$OpenBSD$</small>
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