From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:21:40 PST." References: <447cc68b62c083dc03e27b1c36350a93@hamnavoe.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:37:30 -0800 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20130115013730.55D89B832@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 07d12efe-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:21:40 PST John Floren 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