[9fans] Plan 9 on 68k

[9fans] Plan 9 on 68k

[raphael rsc]

hello, 
I'm new here, so hello :)
I discovered Plan9 recently and found it quite interesting (even if I do not really use it for now).
I was wondering if I could put Plan 9 on an old powerbook 68k ?
thanks
raphael

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Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on 68k

[boyd, rounin]

> I was wondering if I could put Plan 9 on an old powerbook 68k ?

    http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/port.html

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on 68k

[Steve Simon]

There are 68k compilers for plan9 and the kernel
has run on 68k machines in the past (2nd edition),
there may be a chance of getting the source
for those kernels released from the labs if you
are lucky.

Having said this no one (to my knowledge) has done a native
port to 68k or PPC macs and the old 68k kernels would require
a fair amount or work to be compatible with release 4 even before
before you started the port to the Mac hardware.

Sorry to be discouraging but running Plan9 on a 68k Mac
would be a lot of work.

(unless somone knows differently...)

-Steve