/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 - program counter

program counter:

Trap Handling

We coded stub routines to connect trap handlers to descriptor table entry points, wiring the kernel to receive processor traps.





Copyright 2006 TeleMuse Partners, William Jolitz and Lynne Jolitz