Unix optimized for SPARC?

[Bruce G. Barnett]

In article <253 at iconsys.UUCP> ron at iconsys.UUCP (Ron Holt) writes:
|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?

I agree with your sentiment. Optimizing it for a RISC machine,
along with the other ABI's, should increase the portability of the kernal.

But that is an old topic. The new one is that OSF plans to
remove all of the AT&T code			 	eventually.

Does anyone have a guestimate on the amount of effort this would take?
And how do you prove you weren't influenced by the AT&T code?

Methinks the lawyers will be busy for a while. And the programmers.

Maybe after the project is done, you can license OSF UN*X for merely
twice the price of AT&T UNIX. :-)
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	Bruce G. Barnett 	<barnett at ge-crd.ARPA> <barnett at steinmetz.UUCP>
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