On: The cult of Amiga and SGI, or why workstations mat...

[anthk]

Hey, NetBSD and MacPPC are still used, and people still backports Nethack/Slashem/Frotz to those archs.

Old hardware is always useful.

[jart → anthk]

All Actually Portable Executables run on NetBSD. I love NetBSD. I helped fix a bug in their /bin/sh. I even put the little orange flag on my blog. https://justine.lol/lambda/#binaries See also https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan#support-vector

[anthk → jart]

On non amd64 NetBSD?

[jart → anthk]

It is supported very well on AMD64 NetBSD. Perhaps that will be expanded in the future.

[the_only_law → anthk]

NetBSD is so cool, and I have so many machines sitting around I need to get running on (SGI, Alpha, Dreamcast, etc.)

Sadly I’ve heard it can be rough on older architectures still. I’ve been told, that at least on VAX, for example is not in the best of states because usermode dependencies on Python. From what I was told, Python currently doesn’t have a VAX port due to the architectures floating point design.

[cbmuser → the_only_law]

The VAX backend in GCC was recently modernized and improved so it could survive the cc0 removal.

There was a fundraiser which I created for that purpose.