From: Pat Villani <Pat.Villani(a)hp.com> Sent: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:35:40 -0400 To: tuhs(a)tuhs.org Subject: [TUHS] While on the subject of 32V ...

Folks,

I recently copied down the 32V source, and compiled the kernel with gcc.
Much to my surprise, most of it compiled.
I then split out the machine dependent versus the machine independent files (loose classification :-), and compiled again.
Naturally, in both cases, you could not actually build a kernel because there are vax specific .s files, but the individual C files compiled.
Not a bad start.

As a result, I've been giving serious consideration to porting it to Intel IA32 platforms.
It's much simpler than the unix I worked on until last year (Tru64, aka OSF/1 and Digital UNIX), and the 32V kernel is only a little bigger than the original FreeDOS kernel I wrote.
The Caldera license is pretty much a BSD license, which could be considered an open source license.
This means I should be able to work on it without worrying about IP, although I'd still need management approval.

Should I undertake such an project, would there be enough interest to justify the effort?

Pat