/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 - kernel architect

kernel architect:

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.





Copyright 2006 TeleMuse Partners, William Jolitz and Lynne Jolitz