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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
- Subject: Re: POINTLESS SPECULATION re: Sunergy (SPARCclassic and LX) and 4.1.3
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:26:12 GMT
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- > As Guy said, past SunOS releases have had code that was *specific to
- > certain Sun platforms* in order to work around certain things that may
- > have been peculiar to a particular SPARC processor or CPU board.
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- I read somewhere that SunOS 5+ will ignore an FPU in a 4/110, so it looks like
- the first step of desupporting the whole platform.
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- > or the Lance Ethernet (maybe you run Thinnet)
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- Thinnet would still use the le, wouldn't it?
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- > engineer tells you that they can't reproduce your problem on their own
- > SPARCstation-10's, what then? Beg from the net? And hope the other 10
- > people in the world also doing it can help you out?
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- I've often had better success from the net.
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