Unix optimized for SPARC?

[Ron Holt]

Recently, there has been fear expressed that evil AT&T and Sun will
some how optimize future versions of Unix for SPARC.  Considering the
portability of Unix being one of its best known traits, wouldn't this
be rather difficult to do?  I wouldn't consider BSD optimized for the
VAX nor SVR3 optimized for the 3B2 even though these machines were
used as the porting bases for their respective Unix variants.  Of course,
there are very machine specific sections of the Unix kernel, the VM code
being a good example, but other than that, how could Unix be optimized
for SPARC?
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