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 - database filesystem

database filesystem:

The Filesystem Metaphor and its Importance in Future Work

Filesystem as metaphor allows us to restructure the way we organize system operation - perhaps other arrangements of the filesystem can achieve more enhanced operation, possibly rethinking how to bring up the system in the future.