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we (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
by jerrysievert 2y ago
we (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...