On Sunday 2019-01-27 20:25, Dennis Clarke wrote: >>>> On a side note: As you also added sparc, say, is it planned to revive >>>> the 32bit sparc userland? :-) >>> >>> oh please .. no. >> >> Although I don't have much of a preference for 32bit sparc userland, as >> there is no kernel support for old SPARC gear, but anything substantial >> on why not, Dennis? > > I enjoy historical and archaeological computing as much as the other old > grey beard suspender wearing UNIX geeks but it is largely just a waste > of time. A curiosity to be sure. However nothing more. At least we have > 32-bit ppc FreeScale and Motorola type hardware literally everywhere but > I have not seen 32-bit sparc in the wild for at least a decade.
Running ILP32 software on a 64-bit CPU sure seems unpopular these days... (but it's still half the memory and bandwidth nonwithstanding the beating x32 took not too long ago).