/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 - relocation

relocation:

The GCC Executable Format

Our kernel is a UNIX executable file, just like all of its applications. So what does the a.out file, compiled and loaded usiing GCC and utilities look like?

The Purpose of Our PC Utilities

Why we wrote PC utilities to port UNIX with - the advantage of working from a primitive OS that runs on the absolute machine.





Copyright 2006 TeleMuse Partners, William Jolitz and Lynne Jolitz