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From: Brandon Black vis_blb@unx...
Subject: [9fans] Plan9 on NeXT
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 19:51:55 -0600 (CST)



I have neither the time nor skill nor manuals to attempt a port if 
9nextstation doesn't already support the Turbo....  I was under the 
impression the only difference was CPU clock speed.... were there other 
archeticural changes?

Also.. my question still stands.... if 9nextstation will work on a given 
machine, can i build a 9nextstationcpu for it as well... this binary 
isn't on the distribution... but I seem to remember (from the last time I 
had plan 9 up...) that the cpu and temrinal kernels were nearly identical...

Brandon

On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Rob Pike wrote:

> We never tried Plan 9 on any Next machine other than the plain
> Nextstation.  I doubt you'll have much luck on the other systems,
> although it's probably not too much work, given a sure-to-be-scarce
> manual, to port it.
> 
> -rob
>