Subj : Synchronet can maybe...?
To   : Time Warrior
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Jul 15 2005 06:53 pm

  Re: Synchronet can maybe...?
  By: Time Warrior to zztzed on Fri Jul 15 2005 09:32 am

 >  >  > This may or may not be true, but i've heard that the *nix version
 >  >  > Synchronet is coded to only support PC hardware (a major no-no in the 
 >  >  > world from what I understand -- its supposed to communicate with the k
 >  >  > for that stuff not the HW directly).
 >  > It's not so much that it's "coded only to support PC hardware" or that
 >  > it communicates with the hardware directly, it's more that the code
 >  > makes certain assumptions about things like byte order that aren't true
 >  > on other processors like the G3/4/5, SPARC, etc.  In any case, I believe
 >  > work is underway to make Sync byte-order-agnostic and thus work on any
 >  > processor regardless of endianness.
 > 
 >  So I'm guessing G2 and lower would work?

No. All Mac processors are big-endian.

 > I'll ask my new friend what his proccessor is.

Okay.

 >  >  > If I heard correctly, and if anyone might be motivated to correct
 >  >  > that, I think that Macintrash going to the "Intel" Chipset is somethin
 >  >  > Synchronet could take advantage of.
 >  > While OS X on Intel would make porting Sync in its current state easier
 >  > since it would resolve any byte-order issues that would exist, there
 >  > would still likely be work required in making it use OS X APIs, or at
 >  > least making it conform to the particular quirks of OS X's Unix-like
 >  > APIs.
 > 
 >  Well, if OSX supports "X Desktop" applications, someone ALOT more
 > knowledgable in *nix than I am told me that there *is* a "sbbsctrl"
 > equivelent in the *nix version and that it's just not within plain sight. He
 > said that he has gotten the "nix sbbsctrl" gui control panel to load.

There's no such thing.

 >  I'll have to ask him more about that.

Okay.

                                                  digital man

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