Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:01:50 +1100 (EST) From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> To: Phillip Musumeci <phillip@pm.cse.rmit.EDU.AU> Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Minix and 2.11BSD for small BSD programs/libraries Message-ID: <200101112301.f0BN1o207059@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <14942.12689.588439.641780@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au> from Phillip Musumeci at "Jan 12, 2001 09:20:01 am"
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> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > hi, > > i have been trying to use "sash" as a replacement for "sh" > > and other utilities .. > > or can suggest some patches ? > Then Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > sash has very poor shell functionality. I would suggest using Minix sh > which is very Bourne-like, and is also very small. > > BTW. if someone has the time and inclination to make a couple of ports for > useful small Minix programs, I can provide the patches to make them run > under FreeBSD. > Andrzej Bialecki I just like to agree with Andrzej that some of the applications and libraries in Minix would be suitable for producing a small FreeBSD. I'd also like to suggest 2.11BSD, which at present has most of the functionality of 4.4BSD-Lite, but runs on the 16-bit PDP-11 platform. Some of 2.11BSD is contaminated with AT&T UNIX code (mostly the kernel), but much comes from 4.4BSD-Lite. So the source code from this system might also be useful. The only problem is how to get it. First you need to get a UNIX source license. Easy. Read http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/TUHS/archive_access.html for details. Then go to http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/TUHS/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/ucb/2.11BSD to retrieve the full source code. You can also find an exploded tree of 2.11BSD source code at http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/TUHS/Archive/PDP-11/Trees/2.11BSD/ I just checked, but the Bourne shell in the 2.11BSD code tree is the _real_ one written by Steve Bourne. Cheers, Warren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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