Looking for other hardware with more processor architectures to program? Of note, my brother bought an Xbox 360 but doesn’t really use it much anymore. That runs a PowerPC CPU, so that’s more hardware to experiment upon with Linux syscalls on PowerPC. Then I would have been able to cover minimal Linux syscall library testing with the following processor architectures:
Easy to reach, physically, literally:
- i386
- x86-64
- MIPS
- ARM
Harder to reach, physically, literally:
- PowerPC
These are some omissions that I lament leaving off the list, but must due to the admittable rarity of the hardware:
- MC68000
Yeah, I do have 68k CPU equipment, it’s just that it’s all too lightweight to run Linux. Not enough RAM, hence it’s out of the picture.
Here is other notable hardware left off the list, but I am not at all concerned about omitting it.
- Alpha
- Berkeley RISC
- Itanium
- PA-RISC
- POWER (RS/6000)
- VAX
“Honorable mentions,” things that I must include in the “not concerned” list due to lack of hardware, but I would like to include in the “lament” list due to the popularity of the name.
- SPARC
These are tiny 8-bit or 16-bit processors that are interesting to program, but cannot run Linux:
- 6502
- 65C02
- 65C816
- Z80
- 8088
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80286
- TMS9900
- 8502