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Re: [PLUG] Buying a Sparc 

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:51:44PM -0500, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
> From: Tobias DiPasquale <anany@ece.villanova.edu>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Buying a Sparc
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:51:44 -0500
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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.

You didn't cut off the...

> > Most of this I don't understand as I'm not a Debian developer,

8)

... but now you both have me confused. 8(



Regards,

Time



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