On 24-Oct-00 matthew green wrote:
> not necessarily.  sparc64 *can* run 32 bit.  the ultimate plan would
> be for `NetBSD/sparc' to run 32 bit mode on nearly everything, given
> a capable kernel.

Actually... this makes alot of sense to me..  A single sparc setup that would
run on both ultra and non-ultra sparcs.  Isn't that more or less what Solaris
does?

One could optionally use the 64bit kernel & userland on the 64bit capable
machines.

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