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〈PORTING UNIX TO THE 386〉十五週年

作業系統「考古迷」的 ghost 兄分享了 [PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: A PRACTICAL APPROACH] 的資訊，引述網頁介紹：

In June of 1989 in Berlin, Germany much was about to change. What most don't know was what this had to do with the topic of "Open Source".

William Jolitz was doing two week long seminars. The "wall" was a good symbol for the problem of open development with closed systems.

What would happen if there was an open system, ... like ... perhaps ... bsd?
• Would it be popular?
• Would it be stable?
• Would it develop into something?
So we tried it ... and wrote about it as it happened ... the rest you know. Or do you?

Magazine articles are heavily editted, and there was much that couldn't fit. Here is a chance to restore what happened 15 years ago. Every month we'll release another of the articles ... and with help, restore the details.

[William Jolitz] 與 [Lynne Jolitz] 是 [386BSD] 的作者，十五年前將 4BSD 移植到 i386 (16MHz 386 PC) 的相關文件可參考 [Porting_UNIX_to_the_386_Series()]。此外，Rachel Chalmers 撰寫的文章 [The unknown hackers] ，這裡的 "unknown" 意有所指地就是對比 Linux kernel 的高知名度，而我們當然不能忘記這個事實：

Linus Torvalds himself name-checked their O.S. "If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux," he said, "Linux would probably never have happened."

(19)八零年代末期，銜接九零年代時，發生一系列重大變化，大型系統的式微與個人電腦的蓬勃發展，都可在字裡行間感受到，對了，結語很有意思：

If the glory of being Torvalds evaded them, the Jolitzes certainly helped prepare the way.

除了參考之前 blog [UNIX 家族簡介] 外，Michael G. Brown 撰寫的短文 [The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix ] 也很值得參考 (最好也對照圖表)。
由 jserv 發表於 March 24, 2006 01:30 AM