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 - supervisory commands

supervisory commands:

Utilities: /bin and /sbin

A basic set of utilities is present on the root, both of general user operation as well as necessary supervisory utilities for system recovery and operation.