I think they might have been there for some other reason and then was used for Inferno, which they somewhat had going on a Palm Pilot in some form (not necessarily as the native kernel). If I waded through a ton of archive material I could probably find the latter, to see what it was, but I'm not sure it's really worthwhile now.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 8:16 PM Joseph Stewart <joseph.stew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Charles could probably answer this better than me, but weren't the 68k > compilers made to support Inferno? > -joe > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:18 PM <rt9f.3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm wondering about the history of the 68000 compiler/tools. Support > for the 68020 makes sense, it had an MMU, but 68000 did not. And it had > some design flaws that prevented it from working correctly with the > external MMU, the 68451. So why does/did Plan 9 have a 68000 compiler? > Did Plan 9 ever run on an MMU-less 68000? > > > > thx. > > 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options > Permalink ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf34475f1bb69674a-M0d6f8b10f10462355ff6de16 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
