Thorsten,

I need to check this out--I'll get back to you.

If it were me, I would probably choose to undertake a project of this scale at a more leisurely pace. Some the bugs will likely take several showers' worth of thinking. But, if you want to do a weekend here on it, I will be happy to help and to play host at the labs. But I do need to talk to my boss before I can promise anything.

- Dave

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This sounds very interesting! It would be much better for Mario & I if we could just have this here. I think we could work in the Labs here. How do you feel about that?

This is also ok for me. What is about the hardware stuff? We can bring our laptops with us, but this is maybe not enough.

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(I'm not sure I could get away to Sebastopol, sorry). If you like this idea, let me know and I will see to this end.

What a kind of preparation can we do to make this weekend as productive as possible?

How many people what to join us????? Anybody for South America?

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Thorsten Dittmar wrote:

What a kind of preparation can we do to make this weekend as productive as possible?

I have downloaded Gordon's old 4.0 effort as well as the sources for the 4.1.2 VM and am now starting to study them to see what will be involved in this port. I am in the middle of upgrading my Linux box, but hope to have something to report by the end of this week.

How many people what to join us????? Anybody for South America?

As a friend pointed out, I could spend US$1088 (the best rate I found for an air fare) on some courses and not learn nearly as much.

A X86 port has suddenly become much more interesting for me as it is very likely that I will have to simplify the design for my first machine and use a PC compatible CPU (National Geode - ex Cyrix MediaGX).

We shall see how this week goes. If I can get someting working, then there will be no need to join you. If I can't, then it wouldn't help much for me to join you. So it looks like I'll be staying here in either case...

-- Jecel