/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 - porting 386BSD

porting 386BSD:

Watching for Land Mines

Anticipating problems allowed us to find flaws in our work. We use the standalone system for bootstrap to load test programs that work machine-dependant portions of the kernel.





Copyright 2006 TeleMuse Partners, William Jolitz and Lynne Jolitz