speakup on a sparc

[Brent Harding]

Are they actually better, or just different? I suppose it's not really the
right thing for too many people to jump in to. How did kirk make the
drivers for it then, or do the kernels just come that way, but no guarantee
that one would get a double talk PC, or dec express going in one. I suppose
if I were in a job situation who uses spark, I'd have to try it, but
probably not advisable otherwise.
At 10:55 AM 10/19/00 +1100, you wrote:
>Don't go buy a sparc;
>pcs seem to cause enough trouble as it is and you don't strike me as the sort
>of person who would cope well inside a forth monitor.
>Stay with pcs; far more people have them and the parts are cheaper. You'll
>also get better support off the mailing lists with your problems.
>
>When Kirk says untested; he really means he hasn't even tried it so it's up
>to brave folks like myself to give it a spin.
>You can't run Windows on a sparc unless you use an emulator they use totally
>different processors to a pc.
>
>Regards, Kerry.
>
>On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 06:17:24PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote:
>> Wonder if it'd be worth buying as a second machine to try it on, maybe not
>> if it's untested. The second machine I'd eventually get wouldn't need
>> windows on it, so anything I could get a sightless install of linux on to
>> would be good. The redhat serial interface method would probably work
>> really good, as if I ever do install linux to machines that will usually
>> have no synth connected to them, I'd have to do it some how.
>> At 09:43 AM 10/18/00 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Buddy Brannan <davros at ycardz.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> Well, Kirk can address this better, but I don't see any reason why you
>> >> can't run Linux on a Sparc *if* you're running Linux for a Sparc
processor.
>> >
>> >Well, the architecture patches for sparc are already in the speakup
>> >tree.  I haven't had a chance to try them out on a sparc machine but
>> >would be willing to help anyone that had a sparc to play with.
>> >
>> >  Kirk
>> >
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