Hi
This question has been asked before, but I never recognised an answer.
What about running GRASS (4.0 & 4.1) on the new SPARC Classic, has any-
body incountered any problems. We intend to add a SPARC Classic to our
local SUN SPARC network, consisting of one SPARC 1+ one SPARC IPC and
two SPARC SS10 working as file servers.
As far as I know, the Classic requires SUN-OS 4.2.1 to be run.
So it will have its own operating system running, but all user data and
application programms will reside on the server.
So the questions are:
Will GRASS compiled on the SPARC IPC under SUN-OS 4.1.1 run on the Classic?
Is the Classic powerfull enough to run GRASS and OPENWIN, especially regarding
the graphics card (8bit color).
Hoping somebody has tried this
Greetings Bernd Munier
Roskilde University, Denmark
*supposedly* binaries will run under SunOS 5 if they
were compiled with dynamic linking under 4.1.x.
from comp.sys.sun.admin FAQ:
47) Will SunOS 4.1.x binaries run under SunOS 5.x?
Yes they will, with some restrictions. The most significant is
that the binary in question must have been "dynamically linked."
Otherwise, you will get the message
Bad system call (core dumped)
immediately when starting the 4.1.x binary on SunOS5.
Also, bear in mind that there is a performance overhead for
this "binary emulation"; each system call happens twice,
once to trap into the emulation mode and again to get from
there into the UNIX kernel.
Bernd Munier (bernd@ruc.dk ) writes on 11 Mar 93:
Hi
This question has been asked before, but I never recognised an answer.
What about running GRASS (4.0 & 4.1) on the new SPARC Classic, has any-
body incountered any problems. We intend to add a SPARC Classic to our
local SUN SPARC network, consisting of one SPARC 1+ one SPARC IPC and
two SPARC SS10 working as file servers.
As far as I know, the Classic requires SUN-OS 4.2.1 to be run.
So it will have its own operating system running, but all user data and
application programms will reside on the server.
So the questions are:
Will GRASS compiled on the SPARC IPC under SUN-OS 4.1.1 run on the Classic?
Is the Classic powerfull enough to run GRASS and OPENWIN, especially regarding
the graphics card (8bit color).
Hoping somebody has tried this
Greetings Bernd Munier
Roskilde University, Denmark