Re: [9fans] Running Version 2 along with Version 3

[Mike Acar <mike@trolltech.com>]

splite@purdue.edu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:51:37AM -0400, presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> > Of course, you could just port the new system to the Sun hardware.
> > It shouldn't be that difficult with both the new and old in hand.
> > We didn't because we don't really use suns, most of our old processors
> > are mips.
> 
> As nobody seems to have done it yet, I thought I'd have a go at a SPARC
> (sun4c) port of 3rd ed.  I do have a 2nd ed. license, but I'm a bit worried
> about "contaminating" a 3rd ed. port by looking at or incorporating 2nd ed.
> source.  Should I be?
> 
> Of course, if somebody has already done the port, so much the better...
> 

We have a couple of old SPARCStation 5s (sun4m?) which aren't doing anything,
so we (meaning another sysadmin and I) thought that making them Plan 9
terminals would be cool. My ignorance of SPARCs is nearly complete and I
haven't hacked on a real OS kernel before but we'd be interested in helping
out.

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