Re: Why is it called sparc64?

[James Fowler <santiago@cox.net>]

IIRC it is because all of the SPARCs prior to the ULTRA line 
were 32bit. The UltraSPARCs and beyond were 64 bit machines. Thus an ULTRA 
10 has both a machine name and a sparc64 designation.

James
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Bill Moseley wrote:

> BTW -- The Ultra 10 on sourceforge say:
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux usf-cf-sparc-linux-1 2.4.18 #2 Thu Apr 11 14:37:17 EDT 2002 sparc64
> unknown
> 
> I gather from the Solaris list it's a SPARC v9, and a sparc64 is something
> else.
> 
> 
> 

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