>It would be not very wise to do that. Basically there is AFAIK only one >engineer left who maintains the old ksh at Sun - which means she would >have to do all the porting work, together with the usual maintaince, >other shells and ksh93. And AFAIK ksh88i predates the PowerPC >architecture so getting it ported will not be an easy task (unless >someone find the ancient Solaris 2.5.1/PPC sources and updates them - >which is likely a similar complex task than porting it again).
I don't understand why porting ksh88i to PowerPC would be such a big task; or why shells would have *any* architecture dependent code. And the PPC code was integrated in Solaris so the code should have been ported already. (The removal of the PPC specific code would not have removed the porting done to programs) Casper