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17: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/romp</font></h2>
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1.15 miod 22: There used to be an ``OpenBSD/romp'' effort to port OpenBSD to the IBM 6150
23: and 6151 machines, also known as RT/PC. These machines were IBM's first try
24: into the workstation world, in 1986, and are the ancestors of the RS/6000
25: machines of today.
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28: However, nowadays, it makes little sense to port to a machine which can not
29: support more than 16 megabytes of memory.
1.10 miod 30:
31: <p>
32: A (very quiet) mailing list dedicated to the OpenBSD/romp porting effort is
33: available at <u><font color="#23238e">romp@openbsd.org</font></u>.
1.15 miod 34: It has not seen a message in years.<br>
1.10 miod 35: To join the OpenBSD/romp mailing list, send a message body of <b>"subscribe
36: romp"</b> to <a href="mailto:majordomo@openbsd.org">majordomo@openbsd.org</a>.
37: Please be sure to check our <a href="mail.html">mailing list policy</a> before
38: subscribing.
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1.10 miod 41: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
42: <p>
43: <ul>
1.11 jufi 44: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.10 miod 45: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
46: <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
47: </ul>
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1.10 miod 50: <a name="history"></a>
51: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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1.10 miod 54: Mark Dapoz and Roger Florkowski ported a mix of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD to the
55: romp in the late 1980's, for educational sites not wanting to run AIX on their
56: machines. This port was named ``AOS''.
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59: The code eventually was released to the community in the late 1990's, with
60: uncertain license terms. People on the list started to play with the code,
61: fixing bugs in it, making it compilable with gcc, and slowly filling the gaps
1.15 miod 62: between the 4.3BSD era and modern times. But unless someone dedicated to this
63: effort ends up having too much time on his hands, a free operating system
64: port will never happen.
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67: <a name="status"></a>
68: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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1.15 miod 71: There is currently no code publically available, however, people used to
72: work on the code, and patches used to flow privately or on the list from
73: time to time. Nothing has happened within the last ten years, though.
74: Contact <a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">Miod Vallat</a> if you are
75: deluded or want more information.
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1.10 miod 78: <a name="projects"></a>
79: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
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83: <ul>
1.15 miod 84: <li>Fix romp backend bugs in gcc, and get it working in the gcc 2.95 tree.
1.10 miod 85: <li>Write code for binutils supporting the romp, rather than fixing the
86: romp-specific as and ld; eventually, move to ELF
1.15 miod 87: <li>Get hardware documentation (some is available on bitsavers)
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