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 - level of abstraction

level of abstraction:

The First Step

We stepwise proved out the running environment of program tools, program loading and execution, trap handling, stack, and support of high level language. Our project moved from fragile to substantive.