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From: blt@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Brian Thompson)
Subject: Re: porting to other architectures
Message-ID: <1993Jun21.042648.1752@demo1.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
Originator: blt@demo1.comlab
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory
References: <1vvqdrINN92s@ymir.cs.umass.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 04:26:48 GMT
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I might also be interested in doing a port for the ARM series of processors,
for which there isn't an affordable port. ARM based machines (i.e. the Acorn
Archimedes) are very quick indeed, and are very cheap for the power also.

A PD Unix for that box would be a good thing. Porting a version already
ported to a 32bit machine with a linear address space and a paged memory
mapping unit wouldn't do any harm either.

Comments?

Brian Thompson.