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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>
1.23    ! jsg        36: IBM's Academic Information Systems (ACIS) ported BSD to the
        !            37: RT PC for educational sites not wanting to run AIX.
        !            38: Initially 4.2BSD as Academic Information Systems (AIS),
        !            39: and later 4.3BSD as Academic Operating System (AOS).
        !            40: Mark Dapoz and Roger Florkowski later continued this effort with changes
        !            41: from 4.3BSD-Reno and 4.4BSD-Lite.
1.10      miod       42: <p>
                     43: The code eventually was released to the community in the late 1990's, with
                     44: uncertain license terms. People on the list started to play with the code,
                     45: fixing bugs in it, making it compilable with gcc, and slowly filling the gaps
1.15      miod       46: between the 4.3BSD era and modern times. But unless someone dedicated to this
                     47: effort ends up having too much time on his hands, a free operating system
                     48: port will never happen.
1.10      miod       49:
                     50: <hr>
1.22      bentley    51:
                     52: <h3 id="status"><strong>Current status:</strong></h3>
1.10      miod       53:
                     54: <p>
1.22      bentley    55: There is currently no code publicly available, however, people used to
1.15      miod       56: work on the code, and patches used to flow privately or on the list from
                     57: time to time. Nothing has happened within the last ten years, though.
                     58: Contact <a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">Miod Vallat</a> if you are
                     59: deluded or want more information.
1.1       downsj     60:
                     61: <hr>
1.22      bentley    62:
                     63: <h3 id="projects"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
                     64: </strong></h3>
1.10      miod       65:
                     66: <p>
                     67: <ul>
1.15      miod       68:   <li>Fix romp backend bugs in gcc, and get it working in the gcc 2.95 tree.
1.10      miod       69:   <li>Write code for binutils supporting the romp, rather than fixing the
                     70:       romp-specific as and ld; eventually, move to ELF
1.15      miod       71:   <li>Get hardware documentation (some is available on bitsavers)
1.10      miod       72: </ul>