Re: [Tuxnes-devel] misc info/questions

[Jeroen Ruigrok/A. <as...@wx...>]

-On [20010416 17:39], Rigel (ri...@an...) wrote:
>On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:18:53  
> Mike Melanson wrote:
>>On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
>>
>>> -On [20010412 01:01], Rigel (ri...@an...) wrote:
>>> >I have an account on a MIPS (SGI) machine!!
>>> 
>>> Heh.  I have two at home.
>>> 
>>> Currently busy porting FreeBSD to MIPS. :)
>>
>>	Neat. Then we know we can count on you to help test the dyn-rec
>>engine for the MIPS machine...:) BTW, I might have been a little confused
>>when I referred to the "MIPS ISA". I'm not well-versed in all the
>>different types of MIPS processers.
>
>There are quite a few mips processors, but there kind of is a MIPS ISA.
>This is the inst set encountered on the first MIPS chips (MIPS 2000) in
>1985 or so, and is a very capable RISC ISA.

There is (are) a MIPS ISA.  It just has different versions.  There is I,
II, III and IV, with IV being the most popular and best one around right
now.  Used in the 4x00 designs.

>Actually, the SGI I'll be working on doesn't have so much as a c
>compiler, so I may have to deal w/ a cross-compiler--an awkward
>proposition.  I'll keep yall posted on developments in this area.

gcc probably has a binary install somewhere.

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