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Re: [PLUG] Buying a Sparc
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On Thursday 25 April 2002 16:24, Time wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:07:07PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:07:07 -0400
> > From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
> > To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Buying a Sparc
> > Mail-Followup-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:40:05PM -0400, Time wrote:
> > > I use a Sparc Ultra5 here at the lab for development using Debian's
> > > Woody distro/version. I'm so happy with it I was looking to purchase
> > > one to do my gateway/firewall serving at our apartment. I'd suggest
> > > checking Ebay and computer trade shows that come around.
> >
> > Does Debian run that machine in 64-bit mode yet?
>
> The kernel runs in 64 bit mode if I understand what I've read correctly,
> but the user runs programs in 32 bit mode to avoid unnecessary overhead.
> Most of this I don't understand as I'm not a Debian developer, I just
> really like the fact that what Debian gives you for sparc is very
> friendly and with apt-get it makes installation of difficult to find
> libs, packages, etc simple and smooth. 8)
>
> My favorite example is tclreadline(n), which I like to use in tcl/tk
> development so my .tclshrc runs with all the yummie bash-like features.
GCC can only compile in 32-bit on SPARC. To compile 64-bit you must use Sun's
C Compiler. The kernel does not run in 64-bit mode under SPARC Debian.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Time
>
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