Aaron,
In message <cqsn8k$2gso$1@soapbox.cs.bham.ac.uk>, A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk
writes
>Jeff Best wrote:
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>> Have you tried this on both Solaris x86 and Solaris SPARC to see if you
>> get the Linux behaviour or the SPARC behaviour?
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>Alas, I have no access to Solaris on x86.
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>Does anyone actually use solaris on x86?
>
Wanting to support Sun in its flirtation with working with the hardware
we all have at home, I bought Solaris 9 for x86, many, many months ago.
In the intervening period many man-hours have been wasted, fruitlessly,
trying to get the thing into a usable state on a bog-standard AMD/nForce
chip-set machine.
After dusting off the plug-in drive for Solaris x86 earlier today, I had
another go and finally, after a complete reinstallation, and having
swapped some of the hardware to lowest common denominator items that
will still work with this machine's various other operating system
personalities, I have a platform that talks to my network without
freezing and will present a GUI at a barely usable 1024x768. It doesn't
seem to want to talk to my internal network, but since that is connected
via the built-in nForce network interface, and I know that I never
succeeded in persuading Solaris to use this before, I can live with
this.
I have downloaded onto the box Poplog 15.52 for Solaris x86, which, I
believe, is the latest version for this platform. Over the next few
days, I will try and have a go at trying out your external Fortran calls
to see whether they work.
I don't suppose there is a definitive list of 15.52 to 15.53 diffs
anywhere, is there?
>I believe someone at sussex once tested poplog on that configuration,
>but I don't know if it was ever used in earnest.
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>Aaron
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Regards,
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Jeff
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