Comment Re:One year on, shunning sun4m the Stanford Way. (Score 1) 141
The sun4m architecture is dead dead dead. You're talking about machines that last shipped 10 years ago.
The u1 had very serious and real issues operating in 64-bit mode, that were well-known back in Solaris 8.
They didn't just sort of stop supporting the stuff, they dropped 32-bit support entirely from the S10 kernel.
That means the sun4m, sun4c, and early edition of ultrasparc machines are impossible to use. It also means
no expensive engineer time spent trying to deal with 32/64 bit issues in existing code.
Good.
I'd rather Sun focus on hardware I actually want to run, not crap I find in the back of my closet.
(TEN... YEARS... that's back to 486 days in the Intel world)
Let them go peacefully into their putty-colored night, for they are no more.
Or run OpenBSD on them. OpenBSD loves the 4m.
The u1 had very serious and real issues operating in 64-bit mode, that were well-known back in Solaris 8.
They didn't just sort of stop supporting the stuff, they dropped 32-bit support entirely from the S10 kernel.
That means the sun4m, sun4c, and early edition of ultrasparc machines are impossible to use. It also means
no expensive engineer time spent trying to deal with 32/64 bit issues in existing code.
Good.
I'd rather Sun focus on hardware I actually want to run, not crap I find in the back of my closet.
(TEN... YEARS... that's back to 486 days in the Intel world)
Let them go peacefully into their putty-colored night, for they are no more.
Or run OpenBSD on them. OpenBSD loves the 4m.
