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- From: glenns@nmsstage.pad.otc.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq professional Services)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Sun4/SPARC
- Message-ID: <6301@otc.otca.oz>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 04:28:30 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.184114.639@linus.mitre.org> <1992Aug23.171609.25404@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <l9fqqoINNjmq@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <BtGrCw.LEJ@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Aug24.022017.2015@ultra.com>
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- Reply-To: glenns@nmsstage.pad.otc.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq professional Services)
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- In article <1992Aug24.022017.2015@ultra.com>, shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay {Ultra Unix SW Mgr}) writes:
- |> In <BtGrCw.LEJ@acsu.buffalo.edu> pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) writes:
- |>
- |> >too bad any SPARC binary won't run on any sun4 system. it would sure make
- |> >my life easier.
- |>
- |> If you have a binary from any Sun Sparc system (Sun 4/xxx, SSx, IPx, etc.),
- |> that won't run on all other Sun Sparc systems, you have a bug which
- |> should be reported ASAP to Sun. I am not aware of any applications which
- |> run on one model Sun Sparc system, and not on all the others.
- |>
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- Ha! You must have known that some smart !@#$ would immediately flood
- you with responses :-)
-
- What you say is generally true, providing that the application does not depend
- on anything in the kernel. Typically this means that it is not linked with the
- library libkvm.
-
- Now for an example, how about "top", and standard sunos utilities like ps,
- crash, eeprom, pstat, etc...
-
- --
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- Glenn Satchell kalli!glenn@fourx.aus.sun.com
- Uniq Professional Services Pty Ltd glenns@nms.otca.oz.au
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- "The answer is no, and we'll negotiate from there."
-