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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:13087 comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt:3264 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!news.hal.COM!decwrl!netcomsv!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: eclarke@ix.netcom.com (Eric Clarke) 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: 12 Sep 1994 04:38:19 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 43 Distribution: world Message-ID: <350lvr$qak@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-pa3-17.ix.netcom.com In <34qlfp$kh6@father.ludd.luth.se> ragge@father.ludd.luth.se (Anders Magnusson) writes: > >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. > >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, AOS 4.3 is a pure BSD 4.3 port for the RT. There was also a 4.2 port. > and noone knows who is responsible for that >port now. That is a real easy answer... The group, of which I was part, was a part of ACIS. The group was in Palo Alto, CA. In 1989 they were split from ACIS and assigned to AWD in Austin, TX. On Dec. 31, 1989 all _official_ support for AOS 4.3 ended. There were a few contracters that continued to support AOS 4.3 until sometime in 90 or 91. The bottom line is that there is no IBM support for AOS 4.3. IBM is still using it internaly. But even IBM is dumping the last of its RTs for bargin prices. I was able to get two of them in the last few months... >Yep, it was an straightforward port of original 4.3BSD release, >it even said 4.3 BSD UNIX at the login prompt :) It said that because someone changed the default login prompt. >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. The tech refs are still available.... Also if he has AOS on the machine he should have the source code for the OS....