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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:13030 comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt:3260 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!eru.mt.luth.se!omega.ludd.luth.se!father.ludd.luth.se!not-for-mail From: ragge@father.ludd.luth.se (Anders Magnusson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: HELP I need info on net/free BSD for IBM RT's Date: 9 Sep 1994 23:52:57 +0200 Organization: Lulea University Computer Society - Ludd Lines: 35 Message-ID: <34qlfp$kh6@father.ludd.luth.se> References: <34m2do$amh@debris.cosmic.com> <34pnsi$hvf@spruce.cic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: father.ludd.luth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 (NOV) In <34pnsi$hvf@spruce.cic.net> pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) writes: >In article <34m2do$amh@debris.cosmic.com>, >Marc Spitzer <marc@debris.cosmic.com> wrote: >>I need information on Net-BSD and/or Free-BSD for the IBM RT's my school has >>10 of these and the are still in the boxs the came in from IBM. This is >>because they do not have an OS for them to run. Please help these are the >>only unix workstations on campus except for one lonely Sun. And if I rember >>right I read about a port of one of the bsd's to the RT. >Your operating systems choices (to my knowledge) for the RT consist of >AIX and AOS4. AIX is not BSD-based; AOS is. However, I don't believe that >AOS was ever available outside of the academic/research community. Perhaps >someone else can verify that since I haven't used an RT in a while. >There is a small dedicated (crazed?) following of the RT -- you may >elicit their attention by posting on comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt. In fact there _is_ an real 4.3 BSD port for RT machines. IBM had an department working on it for RT machines, but they moved into the AOS environment instead, and noone knows who is responsible for that port now. Yep, it was an straightforward port of original 4.3BSD release, it even said 4.3 BSD UNIX at the login prompt :) >Now there *should* be a port of NetBSD to the RT, but it's not on their >porting list as of yet. If anyone's interested in doing it I will try >to get them a machine. I have an friend here who has an RT machine, and has been talking about trying to make an NetBSD port, but he lacks some hardware specs on his machine. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Anders Magnusson - ragge@ludd.luth.se - Luleå Academic Computer Society - - May the carrier be with you! -