On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 01:12 -0700, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > 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.
OS X is a recent case in point... "Stop shipping PPC machines? No problem, we've been secretly building and testing this x86 version all along anyway"... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
