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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 12, 1999 @05:27AM from the write-once-emulate-anywhere dept.

wald0 writes "This article highlights Sun's efforts at porting Solaris 7 to the Merced on a simulated prototype known as a "pre-silicon software development environment." An interesting piece on how Intel is opening the doors to other OS developers to create code for their chips. "

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Sun press release (Score:1)

by ChrisRijk ( 1818 ) writes:

Here's Sun's press release [sun.com]
The obvious question (Score:1)

by Julian Morrison ( 5575 ) writes:

So, who's going to rig a "merced simulator" for the Linux porting effort?
Losing ground to linux (Score:1)

by Empty Sands ( 6814 ) writes:

Maybe Sun have releasied that they can't hope to support certain areas and stay competative with linux in the long run. Maybe they have decided to focus on the high ground, SMP and large scale server applications. Allowing linux to take over, what will be it's by default in the long term anyway. (Because of it's development model)
pretty vacuous (Score:1)

by ethereal ( 13958 ) writes:

"This is really important in the industry because Merced will be a powerful enough chip that it starts allowing Intel-based systems to deliver a lot more power than was available before," Croll said.

I guess this beats a powerful chip that doesn't
deliver a lot more power than before...
Sun on Merced? Support what you have!!! (Score:1)

by Hammer ( 14284 ) writes:

I guess this is as good marketing as it gets, for Linux that is ;-)
Sun on Merced? Support what you have!!! (Score:1)

by bsdsyslogd ( 14411 ) writes:

Check the HCL for Solaris 7 x86. There are
over a dozen PCMCIA devices listed.
http://access1.sun.com/drivers/hcl/7/oct98/files /c0111.htm

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