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- From: reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool)
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 13:46:51 GMT
- Subject: Re: BSD on HP3500s?
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- / hpuamsa:comp.unix.bsd / trown@ecst.csuchico.edu (Nick Trown) / 10:44 pm Dec 18, 1992 /
-
- > We are thinking of switching our HP3500s from Domain to BSD.
- >Has this been done by anyone yet? If so, could you please point me
- >in the right direction for source, installation notes, etc. Any
- >help would be appreciated. Thanks...
- >
- >--Nick Trown
- >Chico State University, Chico, California
-
- Hello,
- I suppose you mean with HP3500 an Apollo domain 3500 workstation.
- I dont't think this will be a trivial task, as the 3500 works with an
- 68030. So you should do a complete port of the os to that processor.
- I don't know if anybody is doing that. Porting the os starts with a
- port of a C compiler to the 'new' archtecture. Mabe you can use the
- existing Domain C compiler to port the gnu C compiler. But this is
- only the start of an os port.....
- You should also write new device drivers for ithe domain peripheral
- controllers. This is not a simple task. Unless you intend to become
- the Willaim Jolitz of the 68000 community!
-
- Reinier Kleipool,
- reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com
-