[geeks] RE: SPARC proprietary

[Gavin Hubbard]

> > I thought the SPARC architecture was not proprietary?
>
> Anything non-x86 is 'proprietary' to mainstream media.  Just like
> 'hackers' are the bad guys, DSL is 'broadband', Windows servers
> implement 'open standards', and 64-bit computing is 'on the horizon'.

Heh. Tell that to the OpenBSD developers who cannot get access to US III
documentation through Sun because they won't sign an NDA.

SPARC is an open standard. UltraSPARC is a proprietary architecture.

Regards,

Gavin