On Saturday, 9 November 2002 at 23:18:07 +0100, Jesper Jacobsson wrote:
Hi there.
I am a linux-user and I came across TUHS for the first time today
actually when I was searching google for old unices. I love linux and
am very interested in the history of unix. For some time I have wanted
to try out some early versions of unix as I am in my early 20's and was
born too late to have been around those days :( I havn't found any
people to ask about this till today :) Anyway, I browsed the
filearchive and I guess the distributions there surely won't work on my
computer. Is there a way to get them work on a i386 computer? Have
someone made any ports of an early unix system to i386 out of
nostalgia?
Well, I suppose it depends on what you mean by "early UNIX". FreeBSD,
NetBSD and OpenBSD are all ports of BSD UNIX to at least the i386
architecture.
If not, could someone take it on as a hobbyproject so
that new
generations of unix-like-OS-users can explore it? It would be both
fun and also very educational to play around with I am sure.
Well, I suppose you could start with an early version of NetBSD or
FreeBSD and use the machine-dependent parts to port older versions of
UNIX. But it's a non-trivial task.
Greg
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