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Transporting a portable operating system: UNIX to an IBM minicomputer

By Paul J. Jalics, Thomas S. Heines
Communications of the ACM, December 1983, Vol. 26 No. 12, Pages 1066-1072
10.1145/358476.358504
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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.

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