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From: Dan Bethe <dtm AT varesearch DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:22:34 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: MIPS optimizing compiler
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	Hi there everyone.  Forgive me for not subscribing to this
list; perhaps you can cc me to any response.
	I was chatting with Marc a while back about cpu optimizing
compilers for non-x86 architectures.  He said that MIPS is his
favorite.  I offered to share my Mac from here, but Germany's ISP
charges are high!  Well I finally figured out how to get people some free
hardware as their test suite, on location.
	I've made some friends at SGI, which pretty much involved
getting a job at VA Research (the Linux company!  :^) and meeting a
former SGI coworker here.  That is Chris Lawrence
(claw AT varesearch DOT com), who  knows the
people who are in charge of SGI's Linux divisions.  They are doing
some semisupersecret maneuvers to somehow integrate SGI and Linux.  But
that's not as important to this discussion, as is the fact that they
sometimes have a habit of giving away development hardware to
developers!  Yay!
	Also for those of you who HAVE to keep up with this x86 stuff, 
I'm also good friends with the developers of Stampede Linux (the fully 
pgcc-optimized linux distribution) and we found some contact people
inside Intel who are working on Linux.  Furthermore, HJ Lu
(hjl AT varesearch DOT com) is working on binutils, egcs, and all that on
multiple architectures including x86.
	Forgive the blanket nature of this email; I'm just trying to
spark some ideas and gauge some interest.  And I'm particularly
interested in hearing back from Marc Lehmann (sp?).
	As always, VA Research is also interested in giving away its
own hardware as well as hosting sites via our free network
connectivity for opensource community projects (let's make our ISP cry "uncle"!)  :-}
	So who's interested?  Let's help change the world.