I was the one that replaced Alpha by ARM64 as 7 for Plan 9.
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 13:44, Ethan Gardener wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, at 3:37 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
> >
> > There once was a vax port but i don’t know what its letter was.
>
> Well, 7 used to be Alpha. I remember someone being v
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, at 3:15 PM, Brian L. Stuart wrote:
> On Tue, 10/30/18, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > > Is there a technical reason (beside fonts that do not cover them) not
> > > to use a Unicode values for the first letter?
> >
> > They're a bit harder to produce on the key
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, at 3:37 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
>
> There once was a vax port but i don’t know what its letter was.
Well, 7 used to be Alpha. I remember someone being very annoyed because he
still had Alpha hardware when the Go team decided to use 7 for Arm64.
> That works but be careful running clean in /sys/src/9/pc after adding
> the n letter to $OS in /sys/src/mkfile.proto.
Hadn't thought of that. May also be a risk to nroff files ...
