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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:20:57 -0500
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?
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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
>>>=20
>>> hard to fit in the basement.
>>=20
>> How about an ipengine (mpc823)?  I've got one gathering dust here.
>=20
> 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.



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