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Those SPARCstations were noisy, slow, and power hungry. I wouldn't be running them either which is why I got rid of mine which were in the attic for a decade.
by sys_64738 1y ago
Those SPARCstations were noisy, slow, and power hungry. I wouldn't be running them either which is why I got rid of mine which were in the attic for a decade.
- hylaride 1y agoYeah, nostalgia or historical learning is one thing, but these things can’t even browse the modern web (processors can’t handle modern TLS ciphers and our phones have higher resolutions that these can drive). You will be hard pressed to even run modern-ish server-side code that doesn’t use encryption. Even OpenBSD, which tries to cross-compile on as many architectures as possible to expose potential bugs, had to give up on sparc32. They will eventually just take up space.
- throwanem 1y agoYou see a Duesenberg in a museum sometimes, too. We even still say "doozy."
- linksnapzz 1y agoA Sparcstation5/10 will run NetBSD 10.1; but modern web browsers are just too fat for that hardware.
- lisbbb 1y agoThe Sparc 1 and 1+ was already landfill by around 1995 or so. The 5s and 10s ran circles around them.