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The first machine I ever had root on was a PA-RISC K250 running HP/UX 10.20. Good times. I particularly miss PA-RISC: it was a pretty clean instruction set with
by classichasclass 8y ago
The first machine I ever had root on was a PA-RISC K250 running HP/UX 10.20. Good times. I particularly miss PA-RISC: it was a pretty clean instruction set with good performance, and HP never got their money's worth out of Itanic. There's a C8000 in my collection with dual PA-8900s in it.
- anarazel 8y agoPA-RISCs lacking support for any meaningful support for any atomics except TAS (one with weird alignment reqs) forced me to add an atomics emulation layer to postgres. So I somewhat hate it now ;)
- tyingq 8y agoI wasn't aware of this before. Looks like the Linux kernel had to solve for that as well: https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FutexImplementation https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FutexImplementation