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From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 on the Cell...
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:34:39 -0700
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Really, for the PPC64/Cell compiler I don't care about the name...
But then we also need a compiler for the SPUs; that will be much more  
annoying to deal with :-)

Paul

On 28-May-05, at 10:56 AM, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

> Actually, I learned a good bit more about the whole Cell situation  
> this
> morning, from the chipset level on up to the 'when will systems get  
> out'
> level. The situation is, to say the least, murky, and will be for a  
> while.
>
> However: If we were to put effort into a G5 port, which is cheap to do
> (buy a mac!), we'd be ready to rock and roll on the Cell when systems
> become more generally available.
>
> So, Plan 9 is getting fixed for 64-bit mode, we have a K8 compiler  
> now as
> a template. What do we name the compiler?
>
> Cell C (or cc)? Just joking!
>
> G5 C or gc? I'll stop now.
>
> ron
>
>