/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 - supervisor ring

supervisor ring:

Page Fault Handling

We coded trap handlers and simulated read and write faults to test out page faults with our processor support code. On a 2MB machine, we knew we'd get 1,000's.





Copyright 2006 TeleMuse Partners, William Jolitz and Lynne Jolitz