Re: Linux on Sparcstation4?

From: Rich Teer (rich.teer_at_rite-group.com)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 19:18:32 GMT

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Paul S. Brown wrote:

> You are a good source of information Rich, and generally very helpful, but
> on some items you are just a little repetetive.

Thanks (and as for tha latter, some things need to be repeated, lest
the truth be lost in the storm of revisionist history).

> 2) We know the SPARC64 issue. Fujitsu don't appear to care to push the point
> one way or another and it's merely used as a method to differentiate 64bit
> architecture from 32 bit architecture in this usage. Besides, SPARC64 was a

Understood, but why not use sparc and sparcv9 respectively?

> I have just given up trying to figure out what the heck Sun are smoking as
> regards their OS strategy as they seem to be on their third or fourth
> roadmap in the last few years, having gone as far as getting their IA64
> servers WHQL certified which would have been unthinkable just a year ago.

The Windoze bit surprises me too, as I can't think of one example
of someone who would buy Sun kit to run Windoze! I guess the marketroids
thought it would be a good idea (and I think the curent Sun x86 servers
are just rebadged generic ones, the compatiblity bit probably comes for
free)... 

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