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 From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-srpqtrjbrrqssekkdyhaboucbb" Message-Id: <20010130105212.BB462199E6@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:51:27 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 546f92be-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-srpqtrjbrrqssekkdyhaboucbb Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit if you've got 2nd edition source i can let you have a 2nd edition port to the sparc lx/classic (which is sun4m, i think). i haven't got the hardware any more so i can't convert it to 3rd edition myself. --upas-srpqtrjbrrqssekkdyhaboucbb Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from tele-punt-22.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.7]) by lavoro; Mon Jan 29 20:02:01 GMT 2001 Received: from punt-2.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk id 980794428:20:15713:0; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:53:48 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by punt-2.mail.demon.net id aa2015284; 29 Jan 2001 18:53 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.20.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 614CD199F3; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:53:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from lupinella.troll.no (lupinella.troll.no [213.203.59.59]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 59EED199DD for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:52:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from lupinella.troll.no ([213.203.59.59]:9741 "EHLO trolltech.com" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]") by trolltech.com with ESMTP id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:52:17 +0100 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> Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:52:17 +0100 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 | --upas-srpqtrjbrrqssekkdyhaboucbb--