[M3devel] emac

[Jay K]

oh: ps, run Linux on it? Please? Replacing my PowerPC/Linux Hudson node?
That would be good. It is easy enough. I've been using Debian
across various architectures: x86, amd64, hppa, alpha, ia64, powerpc.
 (though Alpha support is going away; might be good to try Gentoo again...)
 
 
 
Support for NetBSD/powerpc and OpenBSD/powerpc should be easy enough.
I had at least one of those working. But there is no Java for these,
so no Hudson.
 
 
Anyone that wants, one person, I can ship out a PowerPC Mac laptop
to take over Linux/powerpc for Hudson. (Ditto for MacOSX if Olaf
doesn't want to keep his going.)
 
 
 - Jay


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> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> To: hendrik at topoi.pooq.com; m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 03:06:34 +0000
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] emac
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> Olaf already has provided a PowerPC Mac running I think MacOSX 10.3.
> Which provides most of any value for any PowerPC Mac.
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> What is "missing" -- hypothetically in some more grandiose but possibly wasteful world -- might include:
> running older versions of MacOS X (10.0, 10.1, 10.2)
> running newer versions of MacOS X (10.4, 10.5)
> personally I haven't noticed much change since 10.2, except for dropping the 68K support circa 10.5, adding x86 circa 10.4, dropping PowerPC circa 10.6.
> running MacOS 7/8/9/Classic -- ie: pre-MacOS X, either in the "Classic emulator", or "directly", as well as the 68K emulator therein.
> (For anyone interested in a 68K port though, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux are probably drastically easier (OpenBSD dropped support recently, Debian dropped support long ago, NetBSD still supports). I'd be willing to give the Posix systems a shot, given ssh access.)
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> My ongoing hardware clearance has not gotten to any laptops but at some point I'll probably offer up some free/cheap PowerPC Mac laptops, if anyone here wants to spend the time/space/energy on them.
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> Ultimately..broken record..if we output fairly portable C++, the cross product work and testing can dramatically go away. YOu know -- let's say I have "hello, world", I don't bother porting it or testing it on any systems but the one I have. Most software is much closer to that than we are currently. I'd like to get close to that.
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> - Jay
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> > Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:26:50 -0500
> > From: hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
> > To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> > Subject: [M3devel] emac
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> > I may be acquiring an emac, which is a small (but heavy -- 50 pounds)
> > power-PC-based Apple Mac, if I've been informed correctly, running a
> > somewhat obsolete OS. If I end up with it, would there be anything I
> > can usefully test on it that's not being adequately tested already?
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> > -- hendrik
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