From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Zippy Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20010515131944.A9A71199E6@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Plan9 on Sun Sparc 5 or RS6000-43P/132 ?? Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:39:13 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a42f6400-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 15 May 2001 13:36:07 GMT, forsyth@vitanuova.com wrote: >if you're working with the sparc 5, which i believe is a microsparc model, >let me know and i can provide the microsparc side of a port of the old system to the Lx/Classic >(which was microsparc-based). you'll need to answer The Questions. > >the microsparc implementations differ in various ways from the Sparc used in the ss and ss10 ports >and thus the lx/classic port might provide a more appropriate base for the sparc 5. >no doubt in practice it is the usual hybrid. "The Questions", meaning the export questions ?? I am in the US, and will not export the source or binaries (or anything else, as I have no place to put it but on my hard disk here in the center of the country) Sparc5 is uniprocessor like the LX/Classic, so it might work. Specifically, the hardware I have for this is: (2) Sparc5's, one 70 MHZ and one 85 MHz (they're exactly the same except for clock speed, with the TGX framebuffer. Is that framebuffer supported .. ? Of would I use a PC for a terminal ?? I also have an RS/6000 43P/132 PowerPC machine. It looks like it's probably not anywhere near supported, though... --Duane