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Re: srs/s/umips.h
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: srs/s/umips.h |
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Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:47:38 +0100 |
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"David Robinow" <address@hidden> writes:
> On 2/16/07, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 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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"And now for something completely different."
- srs/s/umips.h, Glenn Morris, 2007/02/13
- Re: srs/s/umips.h, Andreas Schwab, 2007/02/14
- Re: srs/s/umips.h, Chong Yidong, 2007/02/14
- Re: srs/s/umips.h, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/15
- Re: srs/s/umips.h, Andreas Schwab, 2007/02/15
- Re: srs/s/umips.h, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/16
- Re: srs/s/umips.h, David Robinow, 2007/02/16
- Re: srs/s/umips.h,
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