I know I’m going to probably regret this but have you tried 4.3BSD Tahoe?

Not that im looking for an excuse to push more Mach 2.6 onto the world…

From: Lars Brinkhoff
Sent: Wednesday, 26 May 2021 2:29 pm
To: Jason Stevens
Cc: Sean Dwyer; tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] H.J. Lu Bootable Root & Base System disks

Jason Stevens wrote:

> If I had the time/knowledge a 64bit hosted copy of GCC 1.42 would be

> cool but I think I may be the only one interested in compiling old

> Linux/BSD stuff with the original tools on newer (and alien)

> platforms.

I understand your pain.  I tried to foward port GNU Emacs 16.  I got it

somewhat limping along, but it really wants to live in its natural

4.2BSD-ish habitat.