My Sparc bias is showing. It's strictly a matter of taste. I have a history of periodically diving into assembly language projects. My efforts to study x86 assembly lanuage have always culminated in a violent motion away from. The x86 architecture suffers mightily from the inverted pyramid of ad hoc hardware kludgery caused by the "Windoze 2007 must run DOS 2.0 binaries unaltered" dictates of market forces extraneous to the accepted best practices of engineering. Sparc, OTOH, is a nice, elegant RISC chip with a truly open specification. Sparc assembly language and memory model are far more symmetrical and aesthetically pleasing to me. The Sun boot prom is a good thing, also. Again, strictly a personal impression. Also, I suppose, we don't run x86 Solaris at work. We may in the future.
Notice that the choice of processor is of minor importance as the vast majority of the system source in in C, and, therefore, applies to both platforms. It also applies to such three-headed catfish as the polaris PowerPC port. Such is the famous portability of the Unix kernel. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
