I had a chance to play with a Sparc Ultra 10 that a Uni was getting rid of. I never had the time or chance to play with anything after that though. I did run x86 "solaris" for a while just to test it out. Guess that helped out like 20 years later supporting a POS NAS at a large org that no one had a clue what to do with. "Fun" times.
I probably didn't have a clue how to really take advantage of the hardware at the time and even then it was not the most useful but it was interesting.
@stupidbird Not sure who else to @ Lots of us have worked on old stuff like this.
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>The truth is, our desktop computers today would have been classed as supercomputers only a few decades ago. There was a time when people who needed real desktop power looked down their noses at anyone with a Mac or a PC with any operating system on it. The workstation crowd used Sun computers. Sun used the Sparc processor, and the machine had specs that are laughable now but were enviable in their day. [RetroBytes] shows off Sun’s final entry in the category, the Ultra 45 from 2007.
I had a chance to play with a Sparc Ultra 10 that a Uni was getting rid of. I never had the time or chance to play with anything after that though. I did run x86 "solaris" for a while just to test it out. Guess that helped out like 20 years later supporting a POS NAS at a large org that no one had a clue what to do with. "Fun" times.
I probably didn't have a clue how to really take advantage of the hardware at the time and even then it was not the most useful but it was interesting.
@stupidbird Not sure who else to @ Lots of us have worked on old stuff like this.
Archive: https://archive.today/QwQcB
From the post:
>>The truth is, our desktop computers today would have been classed as supercomputers only a few decades ago. There was a time when people who needed real desktop power looked down their noses at anyone with a Mac or a PC with any operating system on it. The workstation crowd used Sun computers. Sun used the Sparc processor, and the machine had specs that are laughable now but were enviable in their day. [RetroBytes] shows off Sun’s final entry in the category, the Ultra 45 from 2007.
