From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Running Version 2 along with Version 3 In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:30:33 -0500 <20010129133033.B9247@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> From: Mike Acar Message-Id: <20010129185218Z114898-5059+49@trolltech.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:52:17 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 54160e1a-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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. -- Brilliance and gorgeousness | Mike Acar And we tell ourselves we don't want the treasures | mike@trolltech.com But we hate the glass anyway |