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Just out of curiosity...when was the last time you bought a Sun workstation? If you did, was it SPARC or AMD-based? Heck, when was the last time you bought any
by rcoder 18y ago
Just out of curiosity...when was the last time you bought a Sun workstation? If you did, was it SPARC or AMD-based?
Heck, when was the last time you bought any desktop system instead of a laptop for development or science work? Sun's hardware is very cool, but desktop machines that neither dirt-cheap nor monster gaming systems are a hard sell these days.
On the other hand, if you want to develop software that targets the SPARC ISA -- and there are lots of reasons to do so -- you can easily pick up an entry-level config of a 1U SPARC server, and rack it up wherever you like.
- lallysingh 18y agoAMD, the only sparcs available were obscenely slow IIIis. Without workstations, how's anyone going to dev for solaris? It's not known for its hardware support of non-sun hardware. I've been in an office with a rackmount in it. The rack is huge and it's loud. They used to just shove the guts of their servers into a desktop box and call them workstations. But I guess that's too much for them now.