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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5262 ; Tue, 22 Dec 92 19:00:34 EST From: reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool) Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 13:46:51 GMT Subject: Re: BSD on HP3500s? Message-ID: <21250002@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> Organization: HP-Sales Office-The Netherlands Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!apollo.hp.com!cupnews0.cup.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hplextra!hpcc05!hpbbn!hpuamsa!reink Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd References: <1gtgn3INN2av@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> Lines: 24 / 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