[tedunangst]

Ignoring 20 years of sparc hardware produced after the last sunos release.

[rbanffy]

Oracle doesn’t help much IIRC. SPARC seems to be a dead-end hardware-wise.

A real shame IMHO.

[pjmlp]

The improvements regarding memory tagging, the first UNIX architecture to ship memory tagging in production for years, has been done under Oracle management.

[palmfacehn]

Will they keep the architecture going forward with new chips?

[pjmlp]

SPARC is doing just fine for the context of existing Solaris customers.

ARM, RISC-V and CHERI have similar memory tagging capabilities for Linux/Windows users.

The elephant in the room are Intel/AMD not being able to deliver on that front, after several failed attempts.

[rbanffy]

> SPARC is doing just fine for the context of existing Solaris customers.

In other words, it's a legacy product. There's no future roadmap for SPARC, unlike ARM, x86, POWER, and Z.

[palmfacehn]

From my limited reading on the topic, even Fujitsu has moved on to ARM. Maybe someone can pop in here with a correction to that?

[stonogo]

Yes, it's pretty clear everyone is. What's your point?

[tedunangst]

The majority of sparc gear out there doesn't run sunos at all, let alone better.