Re: [9fans] Mips kernel

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

all this mips talk while i was absent.

we used the mips a lot in the pathstar project, 0[cal] is
the tool set for 64bit little endian guys.  we didn't run
plan9 - the linecards ran either inferno or lcos.
i can't remember the numbers but i believe the main
devices were the 4700 and the 7000.

a plan9 port/updated port would involve the usual
memory management nightmares but not much else.

i did a quick port to the PS2, which has 128 bit registers
and restricted floating point.  e[cal] is the tool set,
but may not be in the distribution.  3[cal] is the tool set
for the IO processor (BE 3000?).  (this was an inferno.)

i like the mips - should be more of them out there.

brucee