From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:44:20 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <7dd98d122a2febed22e084c416f7550f@kw.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <447cc68b62c083dc03e27b1c36350a93@hamnavoe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 07b9d6d2-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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