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Re:-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C by rbanffy on Friday February 20, 2026 @09:10AM (#47088266)
Even Fujitsu has been moving away from SPARC. What was the last SPARC Fujitsu designed?
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Re:-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C by pjmlp on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:06PM (#47093184)
What matters is that they are still selling them.
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Re:-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C by rbanffy on Sunday February 22, 2026 @06:17AM (#47110108)
Kind of. Atos still sell GCOS/GECOS mainframes, but they are Xeon boxes running emulators. Same with Unisys and MCP (which was written in an ALGOL and had bounds checked IIRC).
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