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18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/romp</font></h2>
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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>
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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>
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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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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''.
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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>
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66: <a name="status"></a>
67: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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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):
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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>
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