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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:08:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <72c71b92615e572ef369df5b329b5010@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)

as it turns out there are a lot of crazy little bugs in the system
due to running for so long on 32-bit machines.  i'm sure that
we're in a similar situation with endianness, but perhaps even
worse.

to keep everybody honest, i'd like to dig up some sort of plausable
big-endian machine.  since the point here is to swat bugs, not
write a new kernel, i would be especially nice if a kernel already
existed.  another big bonus would be hardware that still exists and
doesn't require a soldering iron to keep running.  :-)

- erik



             reply	other threads:[~2013-01-13 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-13 17:08 erik quanstrom [this message]
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

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