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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Binary Compatability between Sparc2 and Sparc10?
- Date: 10 Sep 1992 20:02:56 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <BuDIMt.M2o@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BuDIMt.M2o@news.cso.uiuc.edu> lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam) writes:
- >In a couple of weeks I will be setting up a sparc10. However, I don't
- >know whether the sparc10 and sparc2 are binary compatable. We have
- >some software which we want to move to the ss10, but the answer we got
- >from the sun rep was that he wasn't sure.
-
- Except for programs that read kernel memory, all Sun SPARC-based systems
- are intended to be binary compatible.
-
- If the Sun sales rep doesn't know this, he's pretty lame. Even if it's not
- absolutely true, it's certainly their party line, and it's emphasized in
- all their product announcements, and it should be hard to find a Sun rep
- who'll contradict it.
-
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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