[geeks] SPARC proprietary

[Brian]

Yeah I believe this to be a hurdle the Openbsd developers are trying to get
over..

    Brian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: "The Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] SPARC proprietary


> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:06:46AM -0400, Kevin wrote:
> > I thought the SPARC architecture was not proprietary?
> > Am i missing something?
>
> The SPARC architecture is "open", but the UltraSPARC (esp.
> UltraSPARC-III) *implementation* is proprietary.
>
> Anybody can build their own SPARC-compatible CPU, but you
> can't clone the US-3.
>
> Bill
>
> -- 
> bill bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> austin, texas
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