pbickers@tamaluit.phys.uidaho.edu (Paul Bickerstaff) (02/05/91)
Before I get too far into attempting to port this to my Magnum3000 is there by any chance anybody out there who has done or attempted this port. The CERN library contains maths libraries, graphics, an interesting package called PAW (Physics Activities Workstation) as well as some programs specific to high energy physics. (25 MB of "patchy" source.) CERN currently support Apollo 3000 APO SR 10.2 (-cpu m68k) Apollo 10000 A10 SR 10.2 (-cpu a88k) DECstation 5000 DEC Ultrix v4.0 IBM RISC 6000-530 IRS AIX v3.1 Sil.Graphics Iris SGI IRIX Sys V Rel 3.3.1 Sun SPARCstation 1 SUN OS v4.0.3c but not Mips. (This by the way is influencing some workstation purchase decisions. Anybody at Mips listening?) If you're interested please e-mail. It could influence whether I do this now or later. Also, are there any useful guidelines as to when it might be better to start from SGI or DEC source? Paul Bickerstaff Internet: pbickers@tamaluit.phys.uidaho.edu Physics Dept., Univ. of Idaho Phone: (208) 885 6809 Moscow ID 83843, USA FAX: (208) 885 6173
rogerk@MIPS.com (Roger B.A. Klorese) (02/08/91)
In article <1991Feb04.220608.24845@groucho> pbickers@tamaluit.phys.uidaho.edu (Paul Bickerstaff) writes: >This by the way is influencing some workstation purchase decisions. Anybody >at Mips listening?) Yes, but I'm not sure what we should do about it... suggestions? >Also, are there any useful guidelines as to when it might be better to >start from SGI or DEC source? My suggestion would be to start with the SGI source if the issue of endianness is relevant. Otherwise, if there are OS dependencies, port the SGI version to -systype sysv and the DEC variant to -systype bsd43. -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. MS 6-05 930 DeGuigne Dr. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 +1 408 524-7421 rogerk@mips.COM {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk "I'm the NLA" "WAR: been there, done that... hated it." -- QueerPeace/DAGGER chant