From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 22:10:35 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: alef on sources Message-ID: <20040527051035.GZ2152@cassie.foobarbaz.net> References: <042101c44390$5dc0bb00$067f7d50@SOMA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Christopher Nielsen Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8b0c301c-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:21:26PM -0600, ron minnich wrote: > > yesh. This kind of reminds me of porting Plan 9 to dead things like the > SPARC, except that it's a port a a dead thing to a live system. yeah. i was going to pick up the port to SPARC, but it's really a waste of time. aside from amd64 and ia64, the only other viable 64-bit platform is powerpc, as far as i can tell. amd64 is not all that attractive to me any more because of the intel ISA and the lack of gp registers. i don't know enough about ia64. there's nothing wrong with ports to 32-bit archs. i just have interest in the 64-bit archs. -- Christopher Nielsen "They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin