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1.22    ! bentley     1: <!doctype html>
        !             2: <html lang=en id=platform>
        !             3: <meta charset=utf-8>
        !             4:
1.1       downsj      5: <title>OpenBSD/romp</title>
                      6: <meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD/romp page">
1.20      tb          7: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
                      8: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="openbsd.css">
1.21      tb          9: <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.openbsd.org/romp.html">
1.1       downsj     10:
1.10      miod       11:
1.22    ! bentley    12: <h2 id=OpenBSD>
1.20      tb         13: <a href="index.html">
1.22    ! bentley    14: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
        !            15: romp
1.20      tb         16: </h2>
1.10      miod       17: <hr>
1.22    ! bentley    18:
        !            19: <table><tr><td>
1.20      tb         20: <p>
1.22    ! bentley    21: There used to be an "OpenBSD/romp" effort to port OpenBSD to the IBM 6150
1.15      miod       22: and 6151 machines, also known as RT/PC. These machines were IBM's first try
                     23: into the workstation world, in 1986, and are the ancestors of the RS/6000
                     24: machines of today.
1.22    ! bentley    25:
1.19      deraadt    26: <p>
1.15      miod       27: However, nowadays, it makes little sense to port to a machine which can not
                     28: support more than 16 megabytes of memory.
1.22    ! bentley    29: </table>
1.10      miod       30:
1.19      deraadt    31: <hr>
1.1       downsj     32:
1.22    ! bentley    33: <h3 id="history"><strong>History:</strong></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
1.22    ! bentley    38: machines. This port was named "AOS".
1.10      miod       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>
1.22    ! bentley    49:
        !            50: <h3 id="status"><strong>Current status:</strong></h3>
1.10      miod       51:
                     52: <p>
1.22    ! bentley    53: There is currently no code publicly available, however, people used to
1.15      miod       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>
1.22    ! bentley    60:
        !            61: <h3 id="projects"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
        !            62: </strong></h3>
1.10      miod       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>