From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 5 18:55:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA19713 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:55:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA19708 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:55:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA01821; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 11:24:17 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708060154.LAA01821@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Make this a relese coordinator decision (was Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued) In-Reply-To: <199708051823.UAA15206@kairos.> from Mats Lofkvist at "Aug 5, 97 08:23:44 pm" To: mal@kairos.algonet.se (Mats Lofkvist) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 11:24:17 +0930 (CST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[