Transporting a portable operating system

1 December 1983

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM

Vol. 26 (12) , 1066-1072
https://doi.org/10.1145/358476.358504

Abstract

The “portable” UNIX operating system was transported to an IBM Series/1 minicomputer. The process of transporting is described with emphasis on (1) adapting to the target machine architecture; (2) the selection of the approach taken to transporting; (3) a description of the problems encountered; (4) the degree of portability of the UNIX system; and (5) a summary of the portability lessons learned.

Keywords

C
OPERATING SYSTEM
TARGET MACHINE ARCHITECTURE
IBM SERIES
UNIX SYSTEM
IBM MINICOMPUTER
UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM
UNIX
PORTABLE OPERATING SYSTEM
TRANSPORTING
PORTABILITY LESSON

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

UNIX Time-Sharing System: Language Development Tools
Bell System Technical Journal, 1978