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Technically, yes. Though many early Internet providers used SparcStations and Ultras as "servers", generally either web servers or for shell accounts.
by icedchai 2y ago
Technically, yes. Though many early Internet providers used SparcStations and Ultras as "servers", generally either web servers or for shell accounts.
- jerrysievert 2y agowe (the ISP I worked for in the late 90's) used sparc 5 clones for desktops and mission critical things like DNS, sparc 10 and 20 clones for hosting and account management. they were workhorses for what we tasked them to.
- nineteen999 2y agoSimilar, I assembled a system with a board/CPU purchased from Sun Microelectronics and we ran part of a small ISP on it for years on Solaris. We also put together a couple of DEC Alpha 21164's on the AlphaPC 164LX boards running Debian Linux. Those were fun times you could find some neat non-x86 stuff if you looked back in those days.
- icedchai 2y agoThere was so much more variety in the 90's. At one company I worked for, we had Suns, SGIs, Alphas, HPs...