Re: setup needed for PowerPC assembler programming

2004-09-13 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 23:54, Steve Richter wrote: Well I won an auction on ebay for a G3 iMac. Its blueberry colored! $120 + $40 shipping. Not bad. I am looking forward to seeing how far I can go with this. I have an IBM as400 which is powered by a 64 bit PPC with some special

Re: setup needed for PowerPC assembler programming

2004-09-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 01:35:18AM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On the hardware front I am looking at a G4 desktop system on ebay. Prices seem to be a bit high - $300 for a used G4. I would get a G3 model but the hard drive seems small ( 10 GB ) and the prices of $200 for a 5 year old

Re: setup needed for PowerPC assembler programming

2004-09-12 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:18:28AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 01:35:18AM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On the hardware front I am looking at a G4 desktop system on ebay. Prices seem to be a bit high - $300 for a used G4. I would get a G3 model but the hard drive

Re: setup needed for PowerPC assembler programming

2004-09-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:10:23PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:18:28AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 01:35:18AM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On the hardware front I am looking at a G4 desktop system on ebay. Prices seem to be a bit high

Re: setup needed for PowerPC assembler programming

2004-09-12 Thread Steve Richter
Well I won an auction on ebay for a G3 iMac. Its blueberry colored! $120 + $40 shipping. Not bad. I am looking forward to seeing how far I can go with this. I have an IBM as400 which is powered by a 64 bit PPC with some special instructions only used on that system. The as400 uses 16 byte

setup needed for PowerPC assembler programming

2004-09-11 Thread Steve Richter
I want to learn PowerPC assembler programming and figure I will buy a used G4 mac on ebay, then install debian linux on it. Will that give me all that I need? I ordered debian 3.02 from this site: http://agileos.com/ They say I will receive 6 CDs. So I should receive GNU C and C++, right?

Re: setup needed for PowerPC assembler programming

2004-09-11 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 02:33:41PM -0400, Steve Richter wrote: I want to learn PowerPC assembler programming and figure I will buy a used G4 mac on ebay, then install debian linux on it. Will that give me all that I need? In deed, it is a perfect system. I ordered debian 3.02 from this

Re: setup needed for PowerPC assembler programming

2004-09-11 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Here's some helpful PowerPC references: Optimizing PowerPC Code by Gary Kacmarcik It's rather out of date by now, and doesn't cover today's powerpc models, but it does a real good job of teaching the assembly code, and some of what you need to make the code as efficient as possible. The