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From: rsb@dsi.bc.ca (Rob Ballantyne)
Subject: Porting 4.4-Lite to VAX
Message-ID: <1994May11.190620.29816@dsi.bc.ca>
Organization: Dynapro Systems Inc
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 19:06:20 GMT
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  Thought I'd ask here first.

  We have a VAX 3100 that is about to become unused soon.  I though
as a project I might try to port 4.4BSD-Lite to the machine.  This
might have to be a group effort, right now I don't know how much 
of the O/S would have to be built, and how much would have to be 
re-written.

  So the questions are:  

-  What (and how much) exactly is missing from 4.4BSD that would have
   to be constructed from scratch?  

-  What (and how much) would have to be re-written for the VAX. 

-  How open is DEC about its hardware?  Would I be able to find out the
   low level stuff I need to?


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