Re: Using Frame with Caldera Summary

[lsmalley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lester C. Smalley)]

| Another posted that you can get a full copy of Sun Solaris Intel for free
| for personal use.  You can then use Frame with confidence under Solaris.
| But another person said that Frame's Solaris version on works on Sparcs.
| (I haven't checked out the latest on this one.)

FrameMaker for Solaris is a SPARC specific compiled program, technically
reported (on my Solaris 2.6 SPARCstaion) as an:

maker: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped

So it expects a SPARC processor, SPARC dynamic link libraries, ...

It is _extremely_ unlikely that it would be able to run on a Solaris-X86 PC,
unless the X86 implementation somehow permits remapping hardware instructions.
And if it does, it will suffer some performance penalty (WAG*: 10-15 percent).


- Lester
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