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Re:Update on Oracle Layoffs by cmurf on Monday December 19, 2016 @02:33AM (#13210041)
And is open, not proprietary and royalty free.
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Re:Update on Oracle Layoffs by nraynaud on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:30AM (#13211225)
it looks like the ESA is doing development on OpenSPARC, the idea is that you need doubles for accurate space computations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON )
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Re:Update on Oracle Layoffs by tossedaway334 on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:29AM (#13211215)
while there is an openSPARC core (that is around 10 years old), SPARC in general is not "open, not proprietary and royalty free."
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Re:Update on Oracle Layoffs by cmurf on Monday December 19, 2016 @10:07PM (#13217105)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC

Open Yes, and royalty free

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