[Gllug] Recommended distro

[John Edwards]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:13:25AM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Nix wrote:
> 
>>  i.e., on certain architectures, notably SPARC, OpenSSL benefits
>> *massively* from being built for v8 and above, because of v7's lack of
> 
> Sorry but v7, v8?

Different version of the SPARC chip. From memory:

v7 = sun4c (SparcStation 1, 2, IPC, IPX, etc)
v8 = sun4m (SparcStation 4, 5, 10, 20, etc) and sun4d (SparcCenter 2000 ?)
v9 = sun4u (all Ultra and Enterprise machines, 64 bit)


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