From: David Arnold <davida@pobox.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:20:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2FBF16A5-DA76-4058-A1BA-D0E59F8A7D89@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL4LZyjOVXg1eXsr43E2yzc8k2yZSO5LckZH2Lmk11dKdX=Z8g@mail.gmail.com>
On 13/01/2013, at 2:21 PM, 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?
Cavium Octeon? MIPS64, actively available, but probably not that cheap.
Likely get a PPC64 board cheaper.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-13 22:20 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 [this message]
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
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