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my favorite OS .. fond memories of resurrecting a sparc64, a sparc, a hppa, an i386 next to the amd64s, and feeling right at home with all of them at once. ...

my favorite OS .. fond memories of resurrecting a sparc64, a sparc, a hppa, an i386 next to the amd64s, and feeling right at home with all of them at once. ...Portability exercises for students based on the "Fighting the lemmings" paper by Husemann. (have you ever truly considered endianness and alignment until you've ran i386-developed code on sparc64? :D) ...sadly my work demands a different OS usage from me :'(

LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
Are you sure about the HPPAs? When I had them, there was only Linux for them, also not any distro, but only Debian without too much fuss. edit: I mean besides HP-UX. I remember exactly because I'd really liked to have had the NetBSD option then. It ran on all my other systems at the time. (Between 2000 and 2004)
- ephaeton 5y ago
  somewhat. It's been quite a while and I do remember that hppa was one of the machines in my .. pillage pile of plundering (like an sun U1, a U2, an U-what-was-it-60? three flavors of sparc, an SGI workstation and various other UNIX pizza boxes) and my memory tells me except for the SGI we had them all running at some point (might've been hp300, hp700, should've been prior to hppa renaming. Looking at the numbers, hp700 sounds more familiar). The purpose of these boxes was indeed to offer shell access to students for the fighting the lemmings exercises (a series of C quizzes with regression tests aimed at showing students the pitfalls of non-portable programming), and we did have quite the variety.. But memory lies, so no, I'm not absolutely sure.
  - LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
    No problem. Doesn't really matter. I wasn't absolutely sure either. It may have been that at the times some support has been available in the beginning, but one could only netboot it, also only in -current. Since I've been lazy then I avoided tracking that. Later on it may have been better, but since I've riced the Debian sufficiently I probably didn't bother anymore. Even more later I moved on physically and gifted all that non-X86 stuff away anyways.

LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago

Are you sure about the HPPAs? When I had them, there was only Linux for them, also not any distro, but only Debian without too much fuss. edit: I mean besides HP-UX. I remember exactly because I'd really liked to have had the NetBSD option then. It ran on all my other systems at the time. (Between 2000 and 2004)

ephaeton 5y ago
somewhat. It's been quite a while and I do remember that hppa was one of the machines in my .. pillage pile of plundering (like an sun U1, a U2, an U-what-was-it-60? three flavors of sparc, an SGI workstation and various other UNIX pizza boxes) and my memory tells me except for the SGI we had them all running at some point (might've been hp300, hp700, should've been prior to hppa renaming. Looking at the numbers, hp700 sounds more familiar). The purpose of these boxes was indeed to offer shell access to students for the fighting the lemmings exercises (a series of C quizzes with regression tests aimed at showing students the pitfalls of non-portable programming), and we did have quite the variety.. But memory lies, so no, I'm not absolutely sure.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
  No problem. Doesn't really matter. I wasn't absolutely sure either. It may have been that at the times some support has been available in the beginning, but one could only netboot it, also only in -current. Since I've been lazy then I avoided tracking that. Later on it may have been better, but since I've riced the Debian sufficiently I probably didn't bother anymore. Even more later I moved on physically and gifted all that non-X86 stuff away anyways.