From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: "David Robinow" <drobinow@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: srs/s/umips.h
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:47:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jed54agfk5.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4eb0089f0702160900t78ac67a9i9c0a77b90cc4aba2@mail.gmail.com> (David Robinow's message of "Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:00:42 -0500")
"David Robinow" <drobinow@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2/16/07, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>> > It was the operating system of Mips machines, in the 80s I suppose,
>> > before Mips was acquired by SGI.
>>
>> Is that the same as RISC/os? That would fit in the time frame.
>>
>> I don't think I would have called the file umips if the system
>> were called RISC/os. So either they changed the name of the system
>> and a new file was contributed, or umips is some older system.
>
> For what it's worth, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_OS
According to <http://www.tliquest.net/ryan/sgi/irix_versions.html> this is
the same as RISC/os, which was internally known as UMIPS.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-14 3:35 srs/s/umips.h Glenn Morris
2007-02-14 9:49 ` srs/s/umips.h Andreas Schwab
2007-02-14 16:36 ` srs/s/umips.h Chong Yidong
2007-02-14 16:45 ` srs/s/umips.h Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-14 16:56 ` srs/s/umips.h Andreas Schwab
2007-02-15 5:06 ` srs/s/umips.h Richard Stallman
2007-02-15 9:46 ` srs/s/umips.h Andreas Schwab
2007-02-16 7:46 ` srs/s/umips.h Richard Stallman
2007-02-16 17:00 ` srs/s/umips.h David Robinow
2007-02-16 17:47 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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