From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:11:38 -0500 From: "William K. Josephson" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port update Message-ID: <20050120011138.GC59585@mero.morphisms.net> References: <7DD37218104E31429E79EB0BB136800E11C560@vargas.ntdom.cupdx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7DD37218104E31429E79EB0BB136800E11C560@vargas.ntdom.cupdx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 33475216-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 10:23:51PM -0800, Benjamin Huntsman wrote: > Minus the Sparc assembly, will it still run on Sparc? It should; I believe Russ has been testing on Athena. > As for Tru64, to my knowledge, no one has done any Alpha related work > in some time... I'd be interested to see if plan9port runs on Tru64, > too... Unfortunately, my Tru64-system-to-be isn't quite > functional.... yet. The reason there was support for the Alpha was that Harvard was a die-hard DEC shop (not so much anymore). The computer society, EECS, and the main arts and sciences cluster all ran Alpha. Neither of us is at Harvard any more and in so far as Princeton is not x86 it is a Sun shop.