On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 01:21:07AM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > You worked on PPC 10 years before the first Power systems were > announced? > > Amazing foresight :-)
Ok, I was mis-remembering the dates when I started at Cygnus Solutions (forgetting the Open Software Foundation period). Lets see, I started at Cygnus in December of 1994, which would mean my initial work on Power to convert the AIX abi to System V.4/eabi would have started in early 1995. Looking at eabi.h which was added when I started the System V/eABI work, it was added in 1995. It looks like the date listed that Richard Kenner contributed the rs6000.c file was 1991. So, while I wasn't involved with Power/PowerPC at the time, it is fairly close to the 1990 date I mentioned. According to wikipedia, the first Power1 (i.e. rs/6000) were introduced in February 1990. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS/6000 -- Michael Meissner, IBM IBM, M/S 2506R, 550 King Street, Littleton, MA 01460-6245, USA email: meiss...@linux.vnet.ibm.com, phone: +1 (978) 899-4797
