Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!iconsys!ron From: ron@iconsys.UUCP (Ron Holt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Unix optimized for SPARC? Message-ID: <253@iconsys.UUCP> Date: 28 Jun 88 02:50:35 GMT Lines: 15 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? -- Ron Holt UUCP: {uunet,caeco}!iconsys!ron Software Development Manager ARPANET: icon%byuadam.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu Icon International, Inc. BITNET: icon%byuadam.bitnet Orem, Utah 84058 PHONE: (801) 225-6888