[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-10-13 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk
On 9/28/2022 20:18, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: FWIW, I just tried building GCC 2.95.2 on my Linux system (Fedora Core 32, GCC 10.3.1. It almost built, ran into an argument mismatch error message in something called "chill". So if you want something that old it looks like you'll have to

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-10-13 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 13, 2022, at 11:02 AM, emanuel stiebler wrote: > > On 9/28/2022 20:18, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: >> FWIW, I just tried building GCC 2.95.2 on my Linux system (Fedora Core 32, >> GCC 10.3.1. It almost built, ran into an argument mismatch error message in >> something called

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-10-06 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 6, 2022, at 12:51 AM, Rodney Brown via cctalk > wrote: > > According to gcc-9.1.0/NEWS Intel i860 was an architecture declared obsolete > in GCC 4.0 (and previously in GCC 3.1). GCC does this in two steps. One is that it's marked as obsolete but can still be built, you just get

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-10-05 Thread Rodney Brown via cctalk
According to gcc-9.1.0/NEWS Intel i860 was an architecture declared obsolete in GCC 4.0 (and previously in GCC 3.1). So you could check the configuration files are there in 3.4.6 (2006-03-10) or in 4.0.4 (2007-01-31). The binutils/gas/i860 configuration files were removed in 2018-04-11, so

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-09-27 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Sep 27, 2022, at 7:43 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk > wrote: > > > >> On Sep 27, 2022, at 5:28 PM, Stefan Skoglund via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> fre 2022-09-23 klockan 10:30 -0400 skrev emanuel stiebler via cctalk: >>> Hi all, >>> anybody has some GCC or any other tool chain for the

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-09-27 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Sep 27, 2022, at 5:28 PM, Stefan Skoglund via cctalk > wrote: > > fre 2022-09-23 klockan 10:30 -0400 skrev emanuel stiebler via cctalk: >> Hi all, >> anybody has some GCC or any other tool chain for the above? >> Or some pointers, which was the last version of the GCC tool chain >>

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-09-27 Thread Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
fre 2022-09-23 klockan 10:30 -0400 skrev emanuel stiebler via cctalk: > Hi all, > anybody has some GCC or any other tool chain for the above? > Or some pointers, which was the last version of the GCC tool chain > which > supported the i860, and would be still compile-able on this days >

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-09-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I think there was a unix/unix-like OS for them, but I imagine context > switching > was slow... There were a couple *nix workstations based on it. The Oki 7300 series comes to mind. I think someone exhibited at that VCF pre-COVID. -- personal:

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-09-23 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
Hi Emanuel, On 9/23/22 16:30, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: Hi all, anybody has some GCC or any other tool chain for the above? Or some pointers, which was the last version of the GCC tool chain which supported the i860, and would be still compile-able on this days tools/OS's? I've

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-09-23 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Fri, 23 Sept 2022 at 23:57, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > I believe (I'll have to check) that in the Osborne-McGraw-Hill/Intel > i860 book there's a quote from BillG saying that Microsoft was committed > to developing for the 860 as a personal computer CPU. > > I think that never

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-09-23 Thread Jonathan Katz via cctalk
> > IIRC the Intel IPSC (Inter Personal Super Computer) put a ton of these in parallel. It ran some kind of Unix and there has to have been a gcc port. https://www.vaxbarn.com/42-repair/756-ipsc-860-repair > > I believe (I'll have to check) that in the Osborne-McGraw-Hill/Intel > i860 book

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-09-23 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 9/23/22 11:12, Gordon Henderson via cctalk wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2022, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: > >> Hi all, >> anybody has some GCC or any other tool chain for the above? >> Or some pointers, which was the last version of the GCC tool chain >> which supported the i860, and would

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-09-23 Thread Gordon Henderson via cctalk
On Fri, 23 Sep 2022, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: Hi all, anybody has some GCC or any other tool chain for the above? Or some pointers, which was the last version of the GCC tool chain which supported the i860, and would be still compile-able on this days tools/OS's? Anything? I