1. Re: Solaris & QNX
- Posted by Raude Riwal <RAUDER at THMULTI.COM> Jul 22, 1999
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My question was meant specifically for Solaris on sparcstations, because it is what we use at work, and it has a great profesionnal user base . There is a linux port for UltraSparc stations, called ultra-linux (by redhat) but I'm not an administrator and I can't do all I want with it. I even haven't a station myself, I connect through Exceed (X-connectivity) from my PC under NT (and I don't have administrator rights on it too...) That is life. I'm the boss at home, after midnight. when kids and wife are sleeping. and I am free to sleep on my keyboard... Well. The past weeks I didn't touch a lot my computer, I must prepare my holidays (important thing, no?) and play music. I'm an Off-topic guy. Anyway, about the ports of euphoria, RDS has the sources and only Rob will do an 'official' port. Using gcc, he has the ability to target a lot of platforms, as long as he avoids using some hardware specificities of any platform, bios calls ... I didn't know haskell. A functional language? what do you do with it? I did a try with caml last year... it made me love euphoria much more... Riwal Raude rauder at thmulti.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Norm Goundry [SMTP:bonk1000 at HOTMAIL.COM] > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 4:46 PM > To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU > Subject: 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