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I recall the hosts joking about this on Oxide and Friends, as they worked at Sun in the 90s up through the Sun acquisition. Some of their finds are hilarious. I
by jjice 2y ago
I recall the hosts joking about this on Oxide and Friends, as they worked at Sun in the 90s up through the Sun acquisition. Some of their finds are hilarious. I think Brian had found a "Windows on MIPS" shirt at a thrift store?
- bcantrill 2y agoYes -- it was in fact an SGI t-shirt with the top ten reasons to run NT on MIPS (!!). It was even cringier than you might imagine, and included reasons like "SPARC shmark" (?) -- with the number one reason being "it's so fast it hertz." I would like to believe that this awful shirt was in fact an extraordinary act of subversion from within a once-great SGI, but no one is that good. Anyway, very much worth the twenty five cents I paid for it at the Palo Alto Goodwill!
- latchkey 2y agoIn 2018, I was in a datacenter 1.5 hours outside of Saigon, Vietnam and they had a Sun Microsystems rack wrapped in plastic just sitting there unused... probably worth at least 1M VND now... https://imgur.com/a/sun-rack-DOdq2Uc https://imgur.com/a/sun-rack-DOdq2Uc
- justinclift 2y agoSo, about US$40 you're thinking? Good racks can be pretty expensive... ;)