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<title>OpenBSD/romp</title>
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<meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD/romp page">
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="openbsd.css">
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<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.openbsd.org/romp.html">
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<h2 id=OpenBSD>
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<a href="index.html">
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<i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
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romp
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</h2>
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<table><tr><td>
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<p>
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There used to be an "OpenBSD/romp" effort to port OpenBSD to the IBM 6150
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and 6151 machines, also known as RT/PC. These machines were IBM's first try
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into the workstation world, in 1986, and are the ancestors of the RS/6000
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machines of today.
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However, nowadays, it makes little sense to port to a machine which can not
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support more than 16 megabytes of memory.
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</table>
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<hr>
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<h3 id="history"><strong>History:</strong></h3>
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<p>
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IBM's Academic Information Systems (ACIS) ported BSD to the
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RT PC for educational sites not wanting to run AIX.
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Initially 4.2BSD as Academic Information Systems (AIS),
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and later 4.3BSD as Academic Operating System (AOS).
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Mark Dapoz and Roger Florkowski later continued this effort with changes
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from 4.3BSD-Reno and 4.4BSD-Lite.
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The code eventually was released to the community in the late 1990's, with
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uncertain license terms. People on the list started to play with the code,
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fixing bugs in it, making it compilable with gcc, and slowly filling the gaps
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between the 4.3BSD era and modern times. But unless someone dedicated to this
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effort ends up having too much time on his hands, a free operating system
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port will never happen.
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<hr>
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<h3 id="status"><strong>Current status:</strong></h3>
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There is currently no code publicly available, however, people used to
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work on the code, and patches used to flow privately or on the list from
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time to time. Nothing has happened within the last ten years, though.
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Contact <a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">Miod Vallat</a> if you are
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deluded or want more information.
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<hr>
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<h3 id="projects"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
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</strong></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Fix romp backend bugs in gcc, and get it working in the gcc 2.95 tree.
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<li>Write code for binutils supporting the romp, rather than fixing the
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romp-specific as and ld; eventually, move to ELF
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<li>Get hardware documentation (some is available on bitsavers)
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</ul>
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