AMD, 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

AMD, 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.