On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
>>> Blue Gene
>>>
>>
>> hard to fit in the basement.
>
> How about an ipengine (mpc823)?  I've got one gathering dust here.

if there's a kernel for it, and i could find, it would be great.

> I caution against working on any hardware which can no longer be
> purchased new (sparc32, alpha), it's just pouring time/money down a
> hole. Sparc64 appears to still be available, although only as
> expensive server hardware?

certainly this is true if your goal is to work on the platform, but my
goal has nothing to do with the platform, and everything to do with
checking that there are not unwarrented endian assumptions.

- erik

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