From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:16:48 +0000 Message-ID: <9f3897940903091016v45290801n85bc35025e397798@mail.gmail.com> From: =?UTF-8?B?UGF3ZcWCIExhc2Vr?= To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b72cbe26-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 14:35, xiantingmanbu wrote= : > How to port MMIXWare into Plan 9? =C2=A0Has anyone done it? > Porting wouldn't be hard. I don't remember the code right now (will look into it when I get home) but probably the only thing you would have to change would be mmap() to segattach(), or even simple malloc()-style allocation. Knuth is rather old fashioned, so it might actually work out of the box with APE, and with little changes with native libs. --=20 Pawe=C5=82 Lasek On #lisp@freenode.net " But the systems seem so darned complicated. I see the wife unit here sitting around with winXP and it seems very complicated."