[SunRescue] Q on "optimal" OS for Sun4c machines, now that Solaris 8 won't run

[Ed.Mitchell at centigram.com]

The eerie part is running into people that don't understand endian-ness or
why it should even matter.  As an aside, I recently read that the PowerPC
arch doesn't give a rat's behind about the endianess expectations of
software executing on it.  On other words, it seems to be able to figure
out what endian-ness your data is in and can act accordingly.  Anyone shed
light on this?



From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> on 07/13/2000 01:11 AM GMT

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Subject:  Re: [SunRescue] Q on "optimal" OS for Sun4c machines, now that
      Solaris 8  won't run



  Wow.  Is it possible that we are the last generation of people that
will know how computers actually *work*?  No computer *science* will
be learnt on Windows boxes, in my opinion.

         -Dave McGuire
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