at least VAX are still little endian (was Re: Compaq and DECUS '99)

[Chad K. Lewis]

"Chris K. Young" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 04:46:20PM -0800, Paul G. Allen wrote:
> !                                                                  I've heard
> ! Linux will also run on VAX.
> 
> Oh?  If there's VAX support, it's certainly not in the mainstream Linux
> kernel yet.
> 

That's because it doesn't work yet.

> $ ls /emul/linux/usr/src/linux/arch     # Linux 2.2.13
> alpha   arm     i386    m68k    mips    ppc     sparc   sparc64
> 
> $ ls /usr/src/sys/arch                  # OpenBSD 2.6
> CVS     arc     hp300   kbus    mips    pc532   sparc   wgrisc
> alpha   arm32   hppa    m68k    mvme68k pmax    sun3
> amiga   atari   i386    mac68k  mvme88k powerpc vax
> 
> Make your own conclusions there. :-)
> 
> Chris K.

I'd conclude that OpenBSD forked from folks obsessed with running
on every architecture in the Universe.

Considering linux was never supposed to run on anything except
Linus' i386 desktop, I think it's doing pretty well. ;)

ckl
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