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From: rogerk@MIPS.com (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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Subject: Re: CERN program library
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Date: 7 Feb 91 21:01:17 GMT
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In article <1991Feb04.220608.24845@groucho> pbickers@tamaluit.phys.uidaho.edu (Paul Bickerstaff) writes:
>This by the way is influencing some workstation purchase decisions. Anybody 
>at Mips listening?)

Yes, but I'm not sure what we should do about it... suggestions?

>Also, are there any useful guidelines as to when it might be better to
>start from SGI or DEC source?

My suggestion would be to start with the SGI source if the issue of 
endianness is relevant.  Otherwise, if there are OS dependencies,
port the SGI version to -systype sysv and the DEC variant to -systype
bsd43.
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