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                      5: <title>OpenBSD/romp</title>
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1.20      tb         16: <h2>
                     17: <a href="index.html">
                     18: <font color="#0000ff"><i>Open</i></font><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
                     19: <font color="#e00000">romp</font>
                     20: </h2>
1.10      miod       21: <hr>
1.20      tb         22: <p>
1.10      miod       23:
1.15      miod       24: There used to be an ``OpenBSD/romp'' effort to port OpenBSD to the IBM 6150
                     25: and 6151 machines, also known as RT/PC. These machines were IBM's first try
                     26: into the workstation world, in 1986, and are the ancestors of the RS/6000
                     27: machines of today.
1.19      deraadt    28: <p>
1.15      miod       29:
                     30: However, nowadays, it makes little sense to port to a machine which can not
                     31: support more than 16 megabytes of memory.
1.10      miod       32:
1.19      deraadt    33: <br clear=all>
                     34: <hr>
1.1       downsj     35:
1.19      deraadt    36: <a name="history"></a>
1.1       downsj     37:
1.10      miod       38: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
1.1       downsj     39:
                     40: <p>
1.10      miod       41: Mark Dapoz and Roger Florkowski ported a mix of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD to the
                     42: romp in the late 1980's, for educational sites not wanting to run AIX on their
                     43: machines. This port was named ``AOS''.
                     44:
                     45: <p>
                     46: The code eventually was released to the community in the late 1990's, with
                     47: uncertain license terms. People on the list started to play with the code,
                     48: fixing bugs in it, making it compilable with gcc, and slowly filling the gaps
1.15      miod       49: between the 4.3BSD era and modern times. But unless someone dedicated to this
                     50: effort ends up having too much time on his hands, a free operating system
                     51: port will never happen.
1.10      miod       52:
                     53: <hr>
                     54: <a name="status"></a>
                     55: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
                     56:
                     57: <p>
1.15      miod       58: There is currently no code publically available, however, people used to
                     59: work on the code, and patches used to flow privately or on the list from
                     60: time to time. Nothing has happened within the last ten years, though.
                     61: Contact <a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">Miod Vallat</a> if you are
                     62: deluded or want more information.
1.1       downsj     63:
                     64: <hr>
1.10      miod       65: <a name="projects"></a>
                     66: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
                     67: </strong></font></h3>
                     68:
                     69: <p>
                     70: <ul>
1.15      miod       71:   <li>Fix romp backend bugs in gcc, and get it working in the gcc 2.95 tree.
1.10      miod       72:   <li>Write code for binutils supporting the romp, rather than fixing the
                     73:       romp-specific as and ld; eventually, move to ELF
1.15      miod       74:   <li>Get hardware documentation (some is available on bitsavers)
1.10      miod       75: </ul>
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