offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Zane H. Healy wrote: That would be me. I started out by making CP/M-68K compilable under NetBSD with GCC, which you can find as "exchange" over on Gaby's website (http://cpm.z80.de/ in the "sources" section). My NetBSD box did, indeed, eat itself (the fan on the north bridge died) and I haven't gotten back to work on it. I was booting over the Ethernet and running out of a RAM disk compiled into the image; didn't get as far as fiddling with the disks. When I rebuilt my NetBSD/x86 box, I used a newer version of NetBSD, which had a newer version of GCC. I never figured out how to either coax the version of GCC I *was* using to compile as a VAX cross-compiler on the new NetBSD or get the new version of the compiler do so. Whenever folks talk about using GCC as a cross-compiler, they claim that all you have to do is "configure --target=whatever" and build it; that has *never* been the case for me. I always wind up having to go into the bowels of the build scripts to try to figure out what it's doing. Since I'm not really a Unix person, it takes me forever to figure it out and then I can't remember how I made it work. I do have a VAXstation 4000/96 here, but the last time I tried NetBSD on it the ethernet was flaky, so couldn't get it running well as a development host, either. I haven't tried a recent release of NetBSD to see if they've fixed the ethernet driver. But, mostly, I got distracted by World of Warcraft, which has been sucking up an awful lot of my time over the last few years... -- roger ivie rivie at ridgenet.net