25 Jan
2002
25 Jan
'02
9:19 p.m.
It seems that there is a distribution of Venix hanging about, but I
believe it is for the DEC PRO 350 or 380. So I don't know how useful
it might be in this context.
In any case, one can find it at:
http://www.os2site.com/sw/dec/pro/venix/
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, P.A.Osborne wrote:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:27:25AM -0700, M. Warner
Losh wrote:
Real as in 286 or as in 8088 :-).
Yup, otherwise you start mucking around with the protected mode
shuffle to 32 bits and I have been burnt by that before. The ix86
chips are startup from cold in 16bit mode so it makes life easier.
I've love to have a v7 port to my
DEC Rainbow 100, which isn't too IBM-PC-like other than the fact that
both have an 8088. There was a 8088 port of V7 (or maybe it was v6)
to the Rainbow marketed under the name of venix, but no one seems to
be able to find a distribution anymore.
Oooh that would be so usefull and save so much mucking around.
gcc can compile K&R, but the language has
evolved some since the v7
days. =*, =+, etc became *=, +=, etc. There are some other subtle
things too that I don't recall off the top of my head, but which vexed
the comp.lang.c news groups in the early 1980's.
That makes things a challenge. Still the source of the kernel is
around 10K lines IIRC and going through it in stages doesnt make life
too painfull.
I must be mad thinking about this again....
paul
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