>Didn't it used to run on the Alpha for awhile?

MIPS also (never commercial?) and SPARC (32 bit SuperSPARC port with
a special "little endian mode"; Intergraph did that work but also never
became a product.

>Back around early Solaris 9 when Sun was talking about dropping
>support for x86, I know I said more than once (and can't have been
>the only one!) that a port is an insurance policy, particularly when
>running on a minority CPU architecture.

Absolutely; and giving up Solaris/x86 under estimated both the relative 
weaknesses of SPARC and the strengths of Solaris.

Casper

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