I double checked my calendar, and it wasn't 1 April. :) AFAIK, SPARC is the most open CPU available.
http://www.sparc.org/members.html and from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC ....................................................................... SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc., an organization established in 1989 to promote the SPARC architecture, manage SPARC trademarks, and provide conformance testing. Later, SPARC processors were used in SMP servers produced by Sun Microsystems, Solbourne and Fujitsu, among others, and designed for 64-bit operation. SPARC International was intended to open the SPARC architecture to make a larger ecosystem for the design, which has been licensed to several manufacturers, including Texas Instruments, Atmel, Cypress Semiconductor, and Fujitsu. As a result of SPARC International, the SPARC architecture is fully open and non-proprietary. ................................................................... If you know of a more open CPU, set me straight. Hint:: it isn't Intel/AMD. Jerry On 05/26/12 07:15 PM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > > I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but SVR4 and SPARC are both dead. > It's as simple as that. Get over it and stop bothering the rest of > us. > > SPARC is a technology owned by Oracle. The only SPARC boxes you can > buy on eBay are relics, and I'd wager my Samsung Galaxy S2 phone with > it's dual core 1GHz ARM chip can outperform all of them. Power is now > incredibly expensive, and the economics of running old equipment make > no sense what so ever. If you buy an old SPARC box on ebay for $500, > it's going to cost you more than that per year to run it. > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
