/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 - how to read data from a memory address

how to read data from a memory address:

386 Virtual Memory Address Translation Mechanism

The 386 Paging Memory Management allocates memory in 4KB and 4MB allocation units. This impacts the way programs execute and share file data.





Copyright 2006 TeleMuse Partners, William Jolitz and Lynne Jolitz