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                     14: <p>
                     15: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/romp</font></h2>
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1.15      miod       19: There used to be an ``OpenBSD/romp'' effort to port OpenBSD to the IBM 6150
                     20: and 6151 machines, also known as RT/PC. These machines were IBM's first try
                     21: into the workstation world, in 1986, and are the ancestors of the RS/6000
                     22: machines of today.
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1.15      miod       24:
                     25: However, nowadays, it makes little sense to port to a machine which can not
                     26: support more than 16 megabytes of memory.
1.10      miod       27:
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1.19    ! deraadt    31: <a name="history"></a>
1.1       downsj     32:
1.10      miod       33: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
1.1       downsj     34:
                     35: <p>
1.10      miod       36: Mark Dapoz and Roger Florkowski ported a mix of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD to the
                     37: romp in the late 1980's, for educational sites not wanting to run AIX on their
                     38: machines. This port was named ``AOS''.
                     39:
                     40: <p>
                     41: The code eventually was released to the community in the late 1990's, with
                     42: uncertain license terms. People on the list started to play with the code,
                     43: fixing bugs in it, making it compilable with gcc, and slowly filling the gaps
1.15      miod       44: between the 4.3BSD era and modern times. But unless someone dedicated to this
                     45: effort ends up having too much time on his hands, a free operating system
                     46: port will never happen.
1.10      miod       47:
                     48: <hr>
                     49: <a name="status"></a>
                     50: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
                     51:
                     52: <p>
1.15      miod       53: There is currently no code publically available, however, people used to
                     54: work on the code, and patches used to flow privately or on the list from
                     55: time to time. Nothing has happened within the last ten years, though.
                     56: Contact <a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">Miod Vallat</a> if you are
                     57: deluded or want more information.
1.1       downsj     58:
                     59: <hr>
1.10      miod       60: <a name="projects"></a>
                     61: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
                     62: </strong></font></h3>
                     63:
                     64: <p>
                     65: <ul>
1.15      miod       66:   <li>Fix romp backend bugs in gcc, and get it working in the gcc 2.95 tree.
1.10      miod       67:   <li>Write code for binutils supporting the romp, rather than fixing the
                     68:       romp-specific as and ld; eventually, move to ELF
1.15      miod       69:   <li>Get hardware documentation (some is available on bitsavers)
1.10      miod       70: </ul>
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