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Re: Are we the last ones?



> On May 6, 2020, at 10:46 AM, Greg A. Woods <woods%planix.ca@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Hi Riccardo!
> 
> I agree -- sparc is a good platform for bug hunting (and PPC and Alpha),
> though perhaps not quite as good as more modern tools like valgrind (if
> only we had that working properly on NetBSD!).
> 
> I still have some sparc 32-bit hardware, but not the time to work with
> it at the moment.  I don't know how much of it will still keep the smoke
> inside the wires when next powered on either.

It's not exactly speedy, but one can work with 32-bit sparc in Qemu, as well, and it does a passable job.

-- thorpej



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