On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Steven Wagner wrote:
> I have a G4 tower here on my desk which I *could* use for Jaguar
> development. However, in my computing environment it doesn't make much
> sense to pursue it aggressively.
A very fair response. :)
> I tried to compile it under Puma but quickly lost interest when it started
> looking like it would require effort. I didn't even get as far as
> researching how to extract data out of the (micro)kernel, although there
> appeared to be some surface similarities between Darwin and Tru64/OSF1.
> That was such a frightening prospect that I had to go and lie down for a
> while.
Good grief - I wouldn't have expected it to share very much with
Tru64. We have that here on a few machines as well and while it's a bit
scary, I still think HP-UX takes the cake for weirdness.
> All that having been said, I can't imagine that a Darwin port would be any
> more inherently difficult than porting it to Solaris, IRIX and Tru64 -
> having mostly to do with writing the right machines/darwin.c, probably.
>
> Preston may be able to comment on specific FreeBSD/Darwin similarities...
I can probably find someone here to port it, but I thought I would
check first. Last time I checked, we develop Mathematica for Linux (x86,
PPC, Alpha), Tru64, AIX, Darwin, Solaris and HP-UX. So I'd imagine I can
dig up some Darwin guru to hack away at it. We're working very closely
with Apple on this cluster project, and we'll most likely be getting
similar deals together with a few other big names. It would be very cool
to have all of them running Ganglia!
If we get a successful port, I'll post information here and
provide a copy of the finished source. Thankfully, I've got some of the
right people here salivating enough that this should happen soon.
Thanks for your time!
Dave
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Dave Ingram
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Wolfram Research
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