Rainer Orth <r...@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> From my understanding, it was not. UltraSPARC I support was dropped when
> 32-bit SPARC was removed. The fact that US-I machines run perfectly fine
> in 64-bit mode (and have been since Solaris 7) wasn't taken into
> consideration. Yes, there was a small risk, but at least you had the
> choice. With the wholesale removal, you didn't any longer.
The lowspeed US-1 machines had a problem as a 64 bit instruction that could
hold the machine was not privileged by mistake. Otherwise, everathing was
perfect ;-)
Jörg
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