From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:35:00 -0700 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] sparc64 -- unstable In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2c74be24-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Tim Newsham wrote: > Hi, I put up a copy of my sources for the ultrasparc for anyone > adventurous enough to try it out. The sources are at /n/sources/newsham > along with a short note on how to run it. well, that's pretty impressive. I wonder if we could get a rought estimate of the amount of work it took to do this port. You did the compiler, right? Compiler, drivers, mach code, etc. -- it would be fascinating to see the relative effort of this vs. something like BSD. My experience is, given a new architecture, that Unix systems take just a bit longer than I think you took ... ron