Re: m88k

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:58:10 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Mitch Davis wrote:
> Goran Thyni wrote:
> > Curious,
> > has anybody done some work or had some plans about porting
> > linux to m88k generally and DG Aviion especially?
>
> Please don't even think about it, for a number of reasons.

Now one good reason to do it:

> 1. Motorola no longer support the m88k processor. The newest
> DG-UX boxes actually have Pentiums inside them. (DG-UX running
> on Pentiums - a fine way to kill a perfectly good system, but
> that's another matter).
>
> If you want to do a port for a dead architecture, do it for the
> Sun3. Then you'll at least get gobs of street cred.

There's already a Sun3 port in progress, but none to the m88k :-)

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/m68k on Amiga          http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium