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<h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/romp</font></h2>

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OpenBSD/romp is an effort to port OpenBSD to the IBM 6150 and 6151 machines,
also known as RT/PC. These machines were IBM's first try into the workstation
world, in 1986, and are the ancestors of the RS/6000 machines of today.

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A (very quiet) mailing list dedicated to the OpenBSD/romp porting effort is
available at <u><font color="#23238e">romp@openbsd.org</font></u>.
To join the OpenBSD/romp mailing list, send a message body of <b>"subscribe
romp"</b> to <a href="mailto:majordomo@openbsd.org">majordomo@openbsd.org</a>.
Please be sure to check our <a href="mail.html">mailing list policy</a> before
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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
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  <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
  <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
  <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>

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Mark Dapoz and Roger Florkowski ported a mix of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD to the
romp in the late 1980's, for educational sites not wanting to run AIX on their
machines. This port was named ``AOS''.

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The code eventually was released to the community in the late 1990's, with
uncertain license terms. People on the list started to play with the code,
fixing bugs in it, making it compilable with gcc, and slowly filling the gaps
between the 4.3BSD era and modern times. This is still a very quiet work in
progress...

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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>

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There is currently no code publically available, however, people are working on
code and patches flow privately or on the list from time to time.
Contact <a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">Miod Vallat</a> if you want more
information.

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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
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  <li>Fix romp backend bugs in gcc
  <li>Write code for binutils supporting the romp, rather than fixing the
      romp-specific as and ld; eventually, move to ELF
  <li>Get hardware documentation
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