From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:37:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130115013730.55D89B832@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:21:40 PST." <CAL4LZyjOVXg1eXsr43E2yzc8k2yZSO5LckZH2Lmk11dKdX=Z8g@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:21:40 PST John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> >>> Blue Gene
> >>>
> >>
> >> hard to fit in the basement.
> >
> > How about an ipengine (mpc823)? I've got one gathering dust here.
> >
> >
>
> I caution against working on any hardware which can no longer be
> purchased new (sparc32, alpha), it's just pouring time/money down a
> hole. Sparc64 appears to still be available, although only as
> expensive server hardware?
Ingenic jz4770 (MIPS based SOC) tablets might be worth
checking out. The last time I looked its documentation was
rather sketchy but there does seem to be a linux port.
http://en.ingenic.cn/product.aspx?ID=78
ftp://ftp.ingenic.cn/3sw/01linux/ (very slow)
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IngenicJz47xx (mirrors some of the above)
More links here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenic_Semiconductor
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-15 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-13 17:08 erik quanstrom
2013-01-13 17:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-01-13 17:45 ` erik quanstrom
2013-01-13 18:02 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-01-13 18:00 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2013-01-13 18:43 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-01-13 18:48 ` erik quanstrom
2013-01-13 18:51 ` John Floren
2013-01-13 19:06 ` Richard Miller
2013-01-13 19:21 ` John Floren
2013-01-13 22:20 ` David Arnold
2013-01-14 1:44 ` erik quanstrom
2013-01-14 8:16 ` Richard Miller
2013-01-15 1:56 ` Bakul Shah
2013-01-15 1:37 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
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