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Received: from owl.CS.Arizona.EDU by cheltenham.CS.Arizona.EDU; Mon, 31 May 1993 11:10:19 MST
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Date: 22 May 93 12:41:52 GMT
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!wupost!tulane!usenet.ufl.edu!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!sun13!ibm12.scri.fsu.edu!nall@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (John Nall)
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Subject: Re: Icon on a mixed-architecture network
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In article <1993May20.134500.4321@mlfarm.com> ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence) writes:
>I'm wondering what is the best way to install Icon on a network with
>both Sun4 and Sun3 machines.
...
>will the same executable run on either system? I don't
>think there are any byte-swapping nasties between Sun3 and Sun4
>architectures.
An interesting question. (I don't know the answer, by the way. Just
musing...)
When I first saw this question, my immediate reaction was "Of course
the same executable will not run on either system! The Sun3 uses the
68xxx chip and the Sun4 uses the Sparc chip!" But then this was followed
by the more rational thought that the file produced by icont is not a
set of binary machine language programs, or at least I don't think it is.
So by using an appropriate version of iconx (which is what the writer is
talking about doing) it seems like it should work fine.
As I say - just conjecture, as I don't know the answer. Anyoneknow?
John
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John W. Nall | Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
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