From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:44:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dd98d122a2febed22e084c416f7550f@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL4LZyjOVXg1eXsr43E2yzc8k2yZSO5LckZH2Lmk11dKdX=Z8g@mail.gmail.com>
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.
if there's a kernel for it, and i could find, it would be great.
> 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?
certainly this is true if your goal is to work on the platform, but my
goal has nothing to do with the platform, and everything to do with
checking that there are not unwarrented endian assumptions.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-14 1:44 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
2013-01-14 1:44 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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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