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 - application program

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The Definition of the 386BSD Specification

Choosing how far to go in supporting X86 architecture in order to get a basic BSD UNIX system to be able to bootstrap the futre efforts.