19 Jul
2005
19 Jul
'05
10:13 p.m.
Uz.ytkownik James Falknor napisa?:
My first goal is to achieve modern x86 system support.
After all,
somebody was able to get Unix Version6 to run on a 286 system.
Eventually, achieve modern 64bit system support.
Well , it seems to be a giant effort You are planning to accomplish.
Because pdp and x86 have different architectures, a lot of new low level
stuff will have to be added.
The same concerns multitasking, multithreading , shared libraries etc.
You will take these from BSD probably.
So I am asking what are You planning to preserve in the modified system.
Will it be still be a Unix Version 7 ?
BTW I have ported apout emulator to Coherent. What I miss is "more" and
"vi". Editing with "cat" is possible but not very useful. I am not
going
to learn "ed". Did You try to port "vi" to Unix Version 7 system ? I
can
build everything for V7 under Coherent, so I thought about vi. One would
have to port curses . What about termcap and terminfo for V7 ?
Andrzej