[SPARCbook] Okay: list will stay as-is

[Lionel Peterson]

On Jan 3, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Mike Hebel <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com> wrote:

> On Jan 3, 2009, at 12:18 PM 1/3/09, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> Not really, no.
>>
>> What are you hoping to do? Solaris/OpenSolaris runs well on many  
>> x86 laptops, see http://opensolaris.org/os/ for more info...
>
> Yes but it feels so much better when you run it on what it was  
> originally designed for.  ;-)

Well, there is that, but the OP was asking about running windows apps  
under Solaris, and since Windows was "originally designed for" x86  
hardware, I stand by my suggestion.

Hypervisors, etc. would allow you to run Windows and Solaris side-by- 
side on an x86 laptop, if that is what you want.

There is also WABI, and, if your needs are modest enough, and the  
SPARC hardware has either SBUS or PCI expansion slots, SunPCi options  
are possible, but those options would be in the "luggable" type  
portables...

Lionel