1. Re: Solaris & QNX
Yes, I too would welcome more attention towards RISC type chips, and any
movement towards them such as porting to Linux-driven Sparcies gets my
small vote. This lateral movement only gets me closer to the Playstation2
and its EE monster cpu setup. 
I Would like to ask Raude Riwal to keep this site posted as to his
successes and failures with such ports so that we can see how it all
developes in the next while. I spent a whole day trying to give myself some
understanding about possibilties regarding a possible port to the QNX
system, and came to the conclusion that this is not such a hot idea. QNX
seems to be far too expensive and exclusive to work on, though I would
certainly like to hear any opposing views to these if I am wrong. Instead
I have been looking at HASKELL and its compiler HUGG. It is free, it is
designed to work with 32bit, it is powerful and it can be compiled to
almost any platform going, including MIPS and SPARC and x86. Go take a
look at it at many of the sites that support it or HASKELL. I would say
that if I was going to attempt a port of EU, or building an EU Emulator to
run on any of the RISC platforms (including ARM and PowerPC) that something
like this would be the place to start. Unless you can do Assembly on the
R3000 and up series, of course, but who can do that.
Feed-back please,
Norm
