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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:
27: <p>
28: A (very quiet) mailing list dedicated to the OpenBSD/romp porting effort is
29: available at <u><font color="#23238e">romp@openbsd.org</font></u>.
30: To join the OpenBSD/romp mailing list, send a message body of <b>"subscribe
31: romp"</b> to <a href="mailto:majordomo@openbsd.org">majordomo@openbsd.org</a>.
32: Please be sure to check our <a href="mail.html">mailing list policy</a> before
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1.10 miod 36: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
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38: <ul>
1.11 jufi 39: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.10 miod 40: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
41: <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
42: </ul>
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1.10 miod 45: <a name="history"></a>
46: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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48: <p>
1.10 miod 49: Mark Dapoz and Roger Florkowski ported a mix of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD to the
50: romp in the late 1980's, for educational sites not wanting to run AIX on their
51: machines. This port was named ``AOS''.
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53: <p>
54: The code eventually was released to the community in the late 1990's, with
55: uncertain license terms. People on the list started to play with the code,
56: fixing bugs in it, making it compilable with gcc, and slowly filling the gaps
57: between the 4.3BSD era and modern times. This is still a very quiet work in
58: progress...
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61: <a name="status"></a>
62: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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65: There is currently no code publically available, however, people are working on
66: code and patches flow privately or on the list from time to time.
1.13 miod 67: Contact <a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">Miod Vallat</a> if you want more
1.10 miod 68: information.
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72: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
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76: <ul>
77: <li>Fix romp backend bugs in gcc
78: <li>Write code for binutils supporting the romp, rather than fixing the
79: romp-specific as and ld; eventually, move to ELF
80: <li>Get hardware documentation
81: </ul>
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