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NetBSD is so cool, and I have so many machines sitting around I need to get running on (SGI, Alpha, Dreamcast, etc.) Sadly I’ve heard it can be rough on older
by the_only_law 5y ago
NetBSD is so cool, and I have so many machines sitting around I need to get running on (SGI, Alpha, Dreamcast, etc.)
Sadly I’ve heard it can be rough on older architectures still. I’ve been told, that at least on VAX, for example is not in the best of states because usermode dependencies on Python. From what I was told, Python currently doesn’t have a VAX port due to the architectures floating point design.
- cbmuser 5y agoThe VAX backend in GCC was recently modernized and improved so it could survive the cc0 removal. There was a fundraiser which I created for that purpose.