Yes, code names (for hardware projects at least) are useful cos they give engineers a way to identify a product before the marketroids get round to deciding what it will "officially" be called...
Just to clarify, "sparc64" is what FreeBSD and NetBSD call the UltraSPARC architecture; "SPARC64" is Fujitsu's 64-bit SPARC v9 implementation. sparc64 != SPARC64.
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Yes, code names (for hardware projects at least) are useful cos they give engineers a way to identify a product before the marketroids get round to deciding what it will "officially" be called...
Just to clarify, "sparc64" is what FreeBSD and NetBSD call the UltraSPARC architecture; "SPARC64" is Fujitsu's 64-bit SPARC v9 implementation. sparc64 != SPARC64.