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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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25: However, nowadays, it makes little sense to port to a machine which can not
26: support more than 16 megabytes of memory.
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1.10 miod 33: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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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''.
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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.
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50: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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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.
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61: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
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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)
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