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Date:      Wed, 6 Aug 1997 11:24:17 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        mal@kairos.algonet.se (Mats Lofkvist)
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Make this a relese coordinator decision (was Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued)
Message-ID:  <199708060154.LAA01821@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199708051823.UAA15206@kairos.> from Mats Lofkvist at "Aug 5, 97 08:23:44 pm"

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Mats Lofkvist stands accused of saying:
[NCR towers]
> I can't remember trying cross-compiling though, when we got the 32's
> the older ones were replaced. But since the NCR 32 was a 68020 machine
> and the XP used a 68010 (*) (if I remember correctly), maybe the same tools
> were used only with some flags to generate -010 code together with an
> extra set of libraries? That would make it a bit to easy to qualify as
> a cross environment imho.
> 
>       _
> Mats Lofkvist
> mal@algonet.se
> 
> 
> (*) Or was it _two_ of them? I have some faint memories they had to use
>     two to make it work with a multi-process os.

You're perhaps thinking of using two 68000's to deal with the broken 
instruction restart.  The Sperry-badged '010 Tower I had only had a 
single CPU.

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