[geeks] Can someone sell me a cheap ultra sparc :-)

[Scott Howard]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 05:23:54PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:53:49AM +1000, Scott Howard wrote:
> > Of course, going full 64-bit doesn't mean that you can't still run 32 bit
> > programs - it just means that the kernel and the like have to be 64 bit,
> > 32 bit userland apps will still work perfectly.
> 
> True, hopefully.

Nope. True.  No hopefully about it.

> Also hopefully, none of that dynamic-only stuff will happen either.

It's happening.

> > > This sounds awfully arbitrary.  Is Solaris going to check your clock
> > > speed and shut off if its too low?
> > 
> > That's exactly what it does today (checks the CPU type, and defaults to
> > the 32 bit kernel if it's "too low", unless you tell it otherwise).
> 
> No, I mean refuse to work.  Hopefully they won't do that.

As I said previously, the current Sol10 builds run perfectly on my Ultra 1.
SunOS krikkit 5.10 s10_25 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1

No idea if this will continue or not...

  Scott.