[Gllug] Recommended distro

[Joel Bernstein]

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?

SPARCv7 vs SPARCv8 CPU architectures. 

SPARCv7 is *ancient*, but it's a lowest-common-denominator compile
target, much as i386 code will run on any later CPU, SPARCv7
instructions will run on later SPARC CPUs.

SPARCv7 CPUs were superceded by the first SPARCv8 CPUs in about 1992.
We're talking about old tech here.

For those who are interested, SPARCv7 is sun4 and sun4c architectures -
old 32-bit systems. SPARCv8 is sun4d and sun4m - newer 32-bit systems,
and SPARCv9 are the sun4u 64-bit capable systems that Sun have been
shipping for 5+ years. All the ultraSPARC CPUs are SPARCv9 chips.

HTH, HAND

/joel
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