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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Unix optimized for SPARC?
Message-ID: <11955@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 00:29:15 GMT
References: <253@iconsys.UUCP> <495@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <495@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk> by aledm@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk (Aled Morris):
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| It takes a mammoth effort to write code which is truly portable,
| and I don't mean just the machine-specific bits.  If AT&T write code
| for the SPARC, expect to see SPARC-isms wired in.   THIS IS NOT GOOD.
+---------------

Wired-in Vax-isms are better?  (This from a proponent of 386 and 680x0
systems, both of which tend to dump core on *(NULL), the world's favorite
Vax-ism.)

AT&T will be producing SVR4 for:

	* SPARC
	* 68020 (Sun 3's aren't going to disappear in a puff of smoke)
	* 80386 (Sun 386i; AT&T 6386E)
	* WE32[01]00 (3B2/3B5/3B20 isn't entirely dead yet)

I doubt that they can wire in SPARCisms without slitting their own throats!

++Brandon
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