BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

[Hershel Fisch]

Oo, oo, I'd really appreciate a bsd builder.
Thanks, Hershel


On 1/17/10 1:12 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> 
>> Personally, I'm extremely 'turned on' by this bit:
>> 
>> "Nine popular UNIX/X11 platforms are also supported: Solaris SPARC,
>> Solaris x86, DEC Alpha, SGI IRIS, HP-9000/700, IBM RS/6000, SCO ODT, BSD
>> UNIX, Linux Intel, and LinuxPPC."
>> 
>> most of those options have become Boojums with RunRev; i.e. they have
>> softly and silently
>> vanished away.
>> 
>> which is an awful shame
> 
> We need a show of hands of how many people actually would use those
> platforms. Last count, almost zero, except for Linux -- which is the
> variant the team chose to continue to support. The time and effort to
> produce engines optimized for each 'nix variant can't be justified by
> the tiny or non-existent number of people likely to use them. The 2.1
> engines were made for MetaCard by Dr. Raney. There were almost no takers
> for those platforms even back then, and now that Linux is the most
> popular, there are virtually none. Personally I'm very happy that the
> engineers are working on the engines that most people use.
> 
>> 
>> NOW . . . the big and burning question has to be . . . How many of the
>> features implemented
>> after RR 2.2.1 will function in builds made with 'Mortal Engines' ?
> 
> Anything implemented in later engines will of course fail in older ones.
> I'm surprised you had to ask.