Re: Removing SunOS/68k compatibility before 8.0

[Mark <markk%clara.co.uk@localhost>]

On 2017-12-28 16:14, Frank Wille wrote:
> I remember we already discussed this topic some time ago, because of 
> the
> limitation of the data segment to 224MB. As far as I understand SunOS 
> does
> not allow non-zero bits in the most significant four bits of a pointer, 
> and
> we could possibly expand the virtual address space for a process to
> Gigabytes by using them.
>
> 1. Are there any important reasons for keeping SunOS compatibility?

Not sure whether it counts as important, but I had occasion recently to 
run a 68K SunOS binary on NetBSD/Amiga. It was the Metacomco BCPL 
compiler executable which was used to build parts of AmigaDOS.