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The SPARCcenter 2000 had 20 sockets in 1992: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun4d#SPARCcenter_2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun4d#SPARCcenter_2000 * htt
by throw0101a 6y ago
The SPARCcenter 2000 had 20 sockets in 1992:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun4d#SPARCcenter_2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun4d#SPARCcenter_2000
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation
The Cray CS6400 had 64 in 1993:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_CS6400 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_CS6400
SunOS 4.1.4 was released in 1994 and SunOS 5.x ("Solaris 2") started in 1992.
- h2odragon 6y agoThe Sparc2k was a beast. I got on in 1998 that (among other tasks) ran the IRC bot for our channel with a 4gb text quotes database to chain off of. ("Shut up, lucy"). It usually ran at a load average of 4 to 12 per CPU. I had just over 1TB of disk array on it; in 4 dozen, full height, 5 inch 23GB SCSI drives. I sank about $10k into that system in ebay parts. at the time there just wasn't any way to get such bandwidth out of x86, but used gear was cheap. if you could afford the time, sweat and blood to keep it running.