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Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

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BobHoward posted:

There was lots of demand for small-ish UNIX workstations, and these RISC CPUs were a killer feature for that type of machine.

What was it about UNIX workstations that made RISC CPUs particularly well-suited to them?

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Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

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Dave Plummer did a video about current IBM mainframes, a lot of it is probably already well-known by folks here but some interesting footage at 12:25 of the physical vibration and shock testing done to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouAG4vXFORc


Also check out the comments section if you want to see current IBM employees buzzing about seeing their work represented and former mainframe programmers getting nostalgic.

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

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Cygni posted:

I guess this would be the right place for Zhaoxin discussion even though its VIA's x86 license?

you guess the explicitly non-x86 platforms thread is the right place for x86 news?!

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