Subject: Re: 2s complement
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/06/2006 22:31:00
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:16:34PM -0500, Kurt J. Lidl wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:01:29PM -0500, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> > >Are there any current or contemplated NetBSD ports to
> > >non-2s-complement machines?
> > 
> > I know the Cray architecture machines are 1s-compliment; are there others?
> > (I guess there must be; I'm just curious how many there are).
> 
> The Sperry/Univac 11xx series machines were ones complement.

Those would have really fast IP and TCP checksum routines, I guess...

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