/joh'liks/ n.,adj. 386BSD
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".
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reverse compatibility: Porting Unix to the 386: Three Initial PC UtilitiesThe second article in the "PORTING UNIX TO THE 386" series discussed the utilities we had to build to test the port on an actual 80386 PC. 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. |