Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!husc6!ncar!cruff From: cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (Craig Ruff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Subject: Re: Are you using a Mac for your pc532 development? Message-ID: <7613@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: 10 Jun 90 02:12:20 GMT References: <<1990Jun9.14313.0@ncar.ucar.edu> > Reply-To: cruff@handies.UCAR.EDU (Craig Ruff) Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 21 In article jonb@vector.dallas.tx.us (Jon Buller) writes: >Did you use your Mac as a host, or did you use some other >computer, or did it just come up by itself with a compiler, tools, etc. 8-)? I assume this refers to my note, as the references line has my machine in it. At the moment, I don't have a working pc532. :-( That day is awaiting the parts buy. :-) Since gcc has been (apparently) been successfully ported to the MPW environment by a person at Apple, it would seem that a Mac could be used to bootstrap a pc532. However, since the bootstrap only need be done once, my idea was to cross compile all the necessary stuff at work on a Sun of some flavor and use my Mac as the intermediary to getting stuff to the pc532. However, I could always hook a SCSI disk to a Sun to write the disk image. Yeah, that's the way to go, and I won't even need to scrounge up that wierd connector either... Anyway, I guess the main point is that I'll not be using the Mac for any extended period as a cross development machine for the pc532. But I'll probably still get Minix for the Mac anyway. -- Craig Ruff NCAR cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (303) 497-1211 P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307