> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 05:54:14PM -0500, dev wrote: > > > > We keep having this tail of zombie architectures. Long obsolete > > > > hardware, run by few people, with pitiful "best effort" package > > > > builds happening each release and with luck once between. They > > > > slowly sink under the accumulating bitrot that nobody cares to fix, > > > > but at the same time people can't bring themselves to completely > > > > abandon those archs. *shrug* > > > > > <snip> > > > I will dust off my ss20 this weekend see if it powers up. > > > > > > > A SparcStation 20 is a relic for historical reference only. A cool > > item and if it powers up I would be surprised. However it won't > > make any more sense than to have a 1976 Ford truck as a daily > > driver. > > What you miss is that running on these architectures expose bugs that > would otherwise not be found. Endianness issues, timing differences > due to slower CPUs, alignment bugs, etc... And those bugs sometimes > turn out to be MI bugs that affect all architectures.
Mike, you are talking way over his head...
