Cool. I had a talk with Bradley (and maybe you Charles) at some past IW9P about mangling the 68k compilers to support Coldfire but I never went forward with it. I had inherited supporting a device that was barely running uCLinux that I REALLY wanted to run Inferno on...
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 3:27 PM Charles Forsyth <charles.fors...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think they might have been there for some other reason and then was used > for Inferno, which they somewhat had going on a Palm Pilot in some form (not > necessarily as the native kernel). > If I waded through a ton of archive material I could probably find the > latter, to see what it was, but I'm not sure it's really worthwhile now. > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 8:16 PM Joseph Stewart <joseph.stew...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Charles could probably answer this better than me, but weren't the 68k >> compilers made to support Inferno? >> -joe >> >> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:18 PM <rt9f.3...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hello, >> > >> > I'm wondering about the history of the 68000 compiler/tools. Support for >> > the 68020 makes sense, it had an MMU, but 68000 did not. And it had some >> > design flaws that prevented it from working correctly with the external >> > MMU, the 68451. So why does/did Plan 9 have a 68000 compiler? Did Plan 9 >> > ever run on an MMU-less 68000? >> > >> > thx. >> > 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink > > 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf34475f1bb69674a-M5d08695f6eacd2fc934cd50c Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
