/joh'liks/ n.,adj. 386BSD

Porting Unix to the 386: A Practical Approach



William & Lynne Jolitz


Started open source UNIX.

Appeared in part as a 17 article magazine series in 1991-1992.

Documented the "how, what, why, who, when" of porting BSD to the 386.

Done while BSD was becoming "open source".





Porting Unix to the 386: A Practical Approach - absolute program

absolute program:

The Purpose of Our PC Utilities

Why we wrote PC utilities to port UNIX with - the advantage of working from a primitive OS that runs on the absolute machine.

The First Step

We stepwise proved out the running environment of program tools, program loading and execution, trap handling, stack, and support of high level language. Our project moved from fragile to substantive.





Copyright 2006 TeleMuse Partners, William Jolitz and Lynne Jolitz