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In the mid-00s, Sun started building x86 workstations using AMD Opteron CPUs when they were trouncing any Intel chip. The Ultra 2x/4x series looked great: http
by scrlk 5y ago
In the mid-00s, Sun started building x86 workstations using AMD Opteron CPUs when they were trouncing any Intel chip.
The Ultra 2x/4x series looked great:
http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/ultra_20m2/ http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/ultra_20m2/
IMO the best implementation of the design came in the SPARC versions where the optical drive and IO were combined in to one 5.25" bay (e.g. Ultra 25, pg 4: http://archives.retrobridge.org/sun/system-handbook/3.4/Systems/Ultra25_shared/documents/Ultra25_Ultra45_JTF.pdf http://archives.retrobridge.org/sun/system-handbook/3.4/Syst...).
- panick21_ 5y agoI knew about the AMD Server but I didn't know they had Workstations too. These to look pretty awesome.
- awiesenhofer 5y agoOh wow, didn't know these were a thing! They look great, now I kinda want one, haha. Though I wonder, who bought these over similar Dell/HP/etc boxes? Did they have any special features or was it mostly just about them running Solaris first-party?
- greggsy 5y agoYep, I had an Ultra 20 opteron. Nice machine.