Subject: Re: MACHINE_ARCH on mips
To: None <port-mips@NetBSD.ORG, tech-toolchain@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.oscs.montana.edu>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 07/25/1998 10:57:56
On Jul 25, 12:50pm, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Todd Vierling wrote:
> 
> : : >MACHINE_ARCH SHOULD SPECIFY A COMPATIBLE SET OF BINARIES, AND IS DOCUMENTED
> : : >TO DO SO.  That's a far more long-standing promise than the mips platforms
> : : >have even existed.

  I'm curious as to where this is documented.

> Oh, and can someone run `uname -m' on an ULTRIX, OSF/1, and Digital UNIX box
> on a mips processor and verify what it prints?  Also, if anyone can verify
> the output of `uname -m' on NeWS stations running NeWS-OS (I believe they
> have `uname')?

  Ultrix 4.3 on a DECstation:	"RISC"

  Digital UNIX only runs on Alphas as far as I know, and so returns "alpha".

Michael

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