[2995] in Athena Bugs
machtype on pMax
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Aug 25 09:31:33 1989
From: <geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 09:31:20 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
i think that machtype -c must return something more
expressive than ``MIPS''; i'd suggest ``MIPS-VAX''
or something that indicates byte order. simple
machtype should be change to return ``mipsv'' or
``vmips'' similarly. anticipating the day when there
are mips chip based workstations with the other byte
order, i think there needs to be some sense of what
the appropriate binaries as indicated directly by
machtype. this should be changed soon, before it
is too late...
--dan
