On 2018-09-11 17:35, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, Paul Goyette wrote:While working on the compat code, I noticed that there are a few old syscalls which are defined in syc/compat/netbsd323/syscalls.master with a type of COMPAT_43, yet there does not exist any compat_netbsd32 implementation as far as I can see... #64 ogetpagesize #84 owait #89 ogetdtablesize #108 osigvec #142 ogethostid (interestingly, there _is_ an implementation for osethostid!) #149 oquota Does any of this really matter? Should we attempt to implement them?I believe COMPAT_43 is not NetBSD 4.3 it's BSD 4.3. Anybody have any old BSD 4.3 80386 binaries they still run? Did BSD 4.3 run on an 80386? Did the 80386 even exist when Berkeley published BSD 4.3?
I would say it'd most definitely BSD 4.3. And no, it did not run on 386. The first BSD version to run on anything besides VAX was 4.3 Tahoe, unless I remember wrong, if we talk about actual BSD. There were forks, though. Such as SunOS. Which were done even earlier than 4.3.
It's probably only useful for running ancient SunOS 4.x binaries, maybe Ultrix, Irix or OSF-1 depending on how closely they followed BSD 4.3.
Well, how about running actual BSD 4.3 binaries? :-)
But this is obviously limited to VAX only.
Johnny
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