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                      5: <title>OpenBSD/romp</title>
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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>
1.1       downsj     36:
1.10      miod       37: <a href="#toc"></a>
                     38: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
                     39: <p>
                     40: <ul>
1.11    ! jufi       41:   <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.10      miod       42:   <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
                     43:   <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
                     44: </ul>
                     45: </p>
1.1       downsj     46:
                     47: <hr>
1.10      miod       48: <a name="history"></a>
                     49: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
1.1       downsj     50:
                     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.
1.1       downsj     74: </p>
                     75:
                     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:
                     90: <hr>
                     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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