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Mr Shiny Pants
Nov 12, 2012
Nice thread, I like reading about these other processors. Shame most of them went the way of the dodo.

I really liked the Ultra Sparc workstations with the Creator 3d cards when they came out, too bad they were so expensive.

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Mr Shiny Pants
Nov 12, 2012
I probably still have an old Sparcstation 5 (pizzabox) with a quad ethernet card that ran OpenBSD as a firewall. Rock solid machine at 110 or 70 Mhz.

Mr Shiny Pants
Nov 12, 2012

Hasturtium posted:

It'll be interesting to see how they perform. I do wonder how RISC-V will perform in non-testbed scenarios.

Still making slow, steady progress on selling my backlog of computers for the purpose of acquiring an eight core POWER9 machine here. People keep advocating for Fedora on ppc64le, but Ubuntu's my comfort zone - how much harder will I make my life if I go that route instead?

To be honest, I think almost any CPU these days is fast enough to run a bureaucracy (office work and the like). I mean, if it is *that* important to run homegrown CPUs you could probably do some extra work on the software side as well.

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