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. > > > -- James Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 59959089 "Thinking implies disagreement; and disagreement implies non-comformity; and non-comformity implies heresy; and heresy implies disloyality -- so obviously thinking must be stopped" [Call to Greatness, 1954] -- Adlai Stephenson
