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If I wanted to develop algorithms for a purely RISC machine, what should my development environment be?

Short of buying a SPARC processor, what emulators are there?

Solution

  • Pickup a second hand Power Mac G5 and you can run a fairly recent version of a mainstream OS (ie. OS X 10.5.8) and a modern development environment (Xcode 3.1.4).
    You get a pretty fast, modern RISC machine running an OS that is still highly used (for the time being, I admit.)
    You could also install Linux onto it if that would be better for your needs.

    Probably a lot easier to find and cheaper than a SPARC machine.