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