bugzilla entries for the X11R6.7 release

Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Sat Apr 3 03:05:24 PST 2004


Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > What about seperating "sparc" into "sparc" and "sparc64" ? Some
> > platforms like Solaris/SPARC support both 32bit and 64bit binaries and
> > most Linux/SPARC versions are either completely 32bit or completely
> > 64bit...
> 
> Despite the constant misuse by various projects, SPARC64 is a trademark
> of Fujitsu for their specific 64-bit SPARC architecture, and most people
> running 64-bit on SPARC's are not using it, but Sun's UltraSPARC.

OKOK, then name it "sparc 64bit". Two seperate words and hopefully no
trademark... :)

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Roland

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