[OmniOS-discuss] OS architecture confusion.

[Chris Nehren]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 01:06:06 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> when i run isainfo it says 64bit. however when i run uname -a
> SunOS omni 5.11 omnios-b281e50 i86pc i386 i86pc
> 
> as both showing different outputs. which one should i consider correct
> information.

In comparison to other operating systems, i386 here refers to the
architecture (as opposed to SPARC) and not 32/64bit. You can take
a look in the source code using cscope or opengrok to see how
this works. It's pretty educational IMO to dig down into the
kernel and see how this stuff is implemented.

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Chris Nehren