Subject: Re: OT but urgent: does anyone know whether OpenSTEP runs on TurboSPARC?
To: Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Timo_Sch=F6ler?= <eclipser23@web.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 01/24/2005 22:47:03
>> hi,
>>
>> i have one small but /urgent/ question:
>>
>> does anyone remember whether OpenSTEP (or NeXTSTEP) runs on 
>> TurboSPARC?
>> i searched google to no avail, fortunately i don't speak japanese --
>> the only site i found is from .jp :/
>>
>> tia & best regards,
>>
>> timo
>>
>
> Timo,
>
>      Looking at http://www.bsn.com/BSN/Support/FAQS/Voyager.html  
> (Section 9.2),
> I would think that OpenSTEP will run on the TurboSPARC (Section 10.1.3)
>
>      Hope the link above helps.  I believe that almost all SPARC 
> processors have
> to adhere to the SPARC ABI, and therefore what works on a Sun SPARC 
> will work on
> SPARCs manufactured by other vendors like Fujitsu (TurboSPARC).

that's what i was thinking, too ;)

otherwise, i remember some lamenux that runs on microSPARC (II), but 
not on TurboSPARC...

however, Edwin Mons told me another source which makes me happy:

http://wks.xanthosmicrosystems.com/os.php?os=NeXTstep

thanks for all, guys!

regards,

timo