*nix on "classic" systems

[Ken Seefried]

From: "Ensor" <classiccmp at memory-alpha.org.uk> 

> Looking around I see that "NetBSD" in particular supports quite a few 
> architectures including VAX, SGI, NeXT etc etc, 

NetBSD is, right or wrong, noted as the run-on-anything Unix (for various 
values of run).  That said, since the people doing a lot of the paid 
development are focused on highish-end embedded systems, they are less 
interested in slavish devotion to ancient systems.  Things like GCC also 
have a huge impact. 

A few ports have recently died (anything ns32000 (e.g. pc532) due to GCC 
dropping support), some are discussed but never gestated (pdp10, pc-rt) and 
some are more moribund than others (vax, though there has been significant 
effort recently). 

The 2.x and 3.x releases have bloated to obscene proportions, like needing 
more than 8M of memory (;^}). 

> So, can anyone point me at a website listing Linux ports to architectures 
> other than PC's. And what modern *nix ports, if any, do other list members 
> use on their classic iron?

You can browse the source code under "arch" and see what ports are 
committed.  For example: http://lxr.linux.no/source/arch/.  This doesn't 
tell the whole story, as there are at least a handful of wildcat ports that 
never made mainline.