NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/misc/legal/21766

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From: [e-mail] (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: Put away your Motif manual; Sun's lawyers are at the door! (long)
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Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 20:01:05 GMT
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In article <richard.725231652@astro> [e-mail] (Richard M. Mathews) writes:
>[e-mail] (Ruth Milner) writes:
>>If so, then yes, you may very well be screwed, and Sun is saying, in
>>essence, that you can only develop on Suns for SPARC-API/OL-compliant systems.
>
>You forget that Solaris now also runs on x86 machines (such as the one
>on which I am typing this message).

No, I don't, but the original poster was (I believe) quoting from the SPARC
Solaris 2.1 CD. It is entirely possible the license agreement on the x86 CD
(or whatever medium it is distributed on) says something slightly different.
Anyone? What API do Solaris x86 machines use?

Note that I said "... only develop *on Suns* for SPARC-API etc.".

Note also that I went on to say that I did not believe this was the interpre-
tation Sun was trying to put on it.
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Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
Computing Division Head      [e-mail]