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Article #182Scheme on SGi machines
From: "Guillermo J. Rozas"
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 19:34
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 19:34
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Date: Wed, 15 May 91 11:44:22 -0400 From: Tom.Emerson@UVM.EDU (Tom Emerson) Has anyone brought Scheme 7.1 on the SGi Iris under Irix 3.3.2? The SGi is a MIPS machine, so I wouldn't think it would be difficult. You are right, it should not be difficult, but... The main issues are: - Making sure that the microcode compiles and runs correctly. Each version of Unix is different from every other, and the conditionalization may not work correctly for yours. - Compiling the system sources for the Iris machine. Note that if the Iris machine uses little-endian byte ordering, it should be able to use the MIPS scheme binaries. If it uses big-endian byte ordering, it cannot. The compiler is conditionalized to handle both byte orderings, but no one has tried it on a big-endian machine. We probably will shortly because we are getting some MIPS-based machines that (we believe) use big-endian byte ordering.
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From: jinx@altdorf.ai.mit.EDU ("Guillermo J. Rozas")
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