10 May
2013
10 May
'13
7:38 p.m.
On 10 May 2013, at 18:55, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
wrote:
Yes. Good as an educational exercise (the porting), but kinda pointless to
actually run.
I'd not say the linux kernel architecture and design quality is a particularly /good/
educational /tool/. I would however support that the porting itself is educational.
There aren't many OSes I'd support as good educational tools, though...
On 05/10/2013 05:48 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Depends on the architecture. It has historically been bad on RISC
platforms. It was originally written for CISC, and its code generation on
68K and VAX (for example) is quite good.
It's also "acceptable" on 32-bit tacked on to 16-bit tacked on to 8-bit
architectures.
I'm saddened to hear that binutils seems to have dropped VAX support.
I think a
lot of that was due to GCC's abyssmal code generation on those
architectures at the time. It's much better nowadays.
But still not what i'd call "fantastic". ;) I'll
never understand the drive to put Linux on an SGI. "Gee, we've got
all this great hardware, let's WASTE it!"
People want to run linux on everything. Even toilets!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajW2fDy41fY)
Linux is definitely a waste of SGI's hardware.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA