January 2008 Archives
Jan 3, 2008
SPARC Architecture – An Introduction
Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Programming Concepts, Technical Articles • No commentsThe Scalable processor Architecture is the widely used by the Solaris operating system.There are three versions v7 and v8 which are 32-bit and V9 which is 64-bit. The SPARC v9 processors can run 32-bit applications as well.
The SPARC processor has 32 general-purpose registers.
The SPARC architecture is big-endian in nature which means that the integers and [...]
