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                     17: <p>
                     18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/romp</font></h2>
                     19:
                     20: <hr>
                     21:
                     22: <p>
1.15      miod       23: There used to be an ``OpenBSD/romp'' effort to port OpenBSD to the IBM 6150
                     24: and 6151 machines, also known as RT/PC. These machines were IBM's first try
                     25: into the workstation world, in 1986, and are the ancestors of the RS/6000
                     26: machines of today.
                     27:
                     28: <p>
                     29: However, nowadays, it makes little sense to port to a machine which can not
                     30: support more than 16 megabytes of memory.
1.10      miod       31:
                     32: <p>
                     33: A (very quiet) mailing list dedicated to the OpenBSD/romp porting effort is
                     34: available at <u><font color="#23238e">romp@openbsd.org</font></u>.
1.15      miod       35: It has not seen a message in years.<br>
1.10      miod       36: To join the OpenBSD/romp mailing list, send a message body of <b>"subscribe
                     37: romp"</b> to <a href="mailto:majordomo@openbsd.org">majordomo@openbsd.org</a>.
                     38: Please be sure to check our <a href="mail.html">mailing list policy</a> before
                     39: subscribing.
1.1       downsj     40:
1.14      nick       41: <a name="toc"></a>
1.10      miod       42: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
                     43: <p>
                     44: <ul>
1.11      jufi       45:   <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.10      miod       46:   <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
                     47:   <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
                     48: </ul>
1.1       downsj     49:
                     50: <hr>
1.10      miod       51: <a name="history"></a>
                     52: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
1.1       downsj     53:
                     54: <p>
1.10      miod       55: Mark Dapoz and Roger Florkowski ported a mix of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD to the
                     56: romp in the late 1980's, for educational sites not wanting to run AIX on their
                     57: machines. This port was named ``AOS''.
                     58:
                     59: <p>
                     60: The code eventually was released to the community in the late 1990's, with
                     61: uncertain license terms. People on the list started to play with the code,
                     62: fixing bugs in it, making it compilable with gcc, and slowly filling the gaps
1.15      miod       63: between the 4.3BSD era and modern times. But unless someone dedicated to this
                     64: effort ends up having too much time on his hands, a free operating system
                     65: port will never happen.
1.10      miod       66:
                     67: <hr>
                     68: <a name="status"></a>
                     69: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
                     70:
                     71: <p>
1.15      miod       72: There is currently no code publically available, however, people used to
                     73: work on the code, and patches used to flow privately or on the list from
                     74: time to time. Nothing has happened within the last ten years, though.
                     75: Contact <a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">Miod Vallat</a> if you are
                     76: deluded or want more information.
1.1       downsj     77:
                     78: <hr>
1.10      miod       79: <a name="projects"></a>
                     80: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
                     81: </strong></font></h3>
                     82:
                     83: <p>
                     84: <ul>
1.15      miod       85:   <li>Fix romp backend bugs in gcc, and get it working in the gcc 2.95 tree.
1.10      miod       86:   <li>Write code for binutils supporting the romp, rather than fixing the
                     87:       romp-specific as and ld; eventually, move to ELF
1.15      miod       88:   <li>Get hardware documentation (some is available on bitsavers)
1.10      miod       89: </ul>
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