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From: Matthew Szudzik <mszudzik@...>

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Subject: Re: Non-x86

Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 2:26 pm

> >> Where are the choices for non-x86?

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> >
> > The only remaining alternative is Sparc. Everything else is either old
> > (macppc) or expensive & unsupported (IA64).

I agree that sparc64 is currently the best alternative to the x86
architecture in i386 and amd64. For me, the biggest obstacles to
buying a sparc64 machine are:

* sparc64 machines the are significantly more expensive than their x86
counterparts.

* There is no binary emulator that would allow me to run proprietary
software like Mathematica on sparc64. (In contrast, I can run Mathematica
on i386 with the Linux binary emulator.)

NetBSD has a Solaris binary emulator for sparc64, so with a little work it
might be possible to remove this second obstacle.

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