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Is this the end of sparc hardware? I know Oracle has been supporting Linux/sparc developement, including a distribution: https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-s
by dmm 10y ago
Is this the end of sparc hardware? I know Oracle has been supporting Linux/sparc developement, including a distribution: https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-sparc/ https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-sparc/.
- protomyth 10y agoFujitsu went with ARM instead of SPARC for their new super computer[1][2]. It might be another indicator. 1) https://www.top500.org/news/fujitsu-switches-horses-for-post-k-supercomputer-will-ride-arm-into-exascale/ https://www.top500.org/news/fujitsu-switches-horses-for-post... 2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12018287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12018287
- planteen 10y agoHonestly I hope so. Good riddance. SPARC is strange compared to other RISC architectures. I was never a fan of the register windows (and associated overflows) and the global/out/local/in register types. Reading the ASM was nasty in my experience.