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 - interface standard

interface standard:

Standalone Display Adapter Driver

Output from our standalone programs was done by a primative display driver to allow standalone programs to display results from bootstrap and test programs. We avoided the BIOS entirely.