Chris Siebenmann
@thomholwerda @mos_8502 Sunrays, ah the second hand memories. Work (UofT CS) was a big Solaris place in the 00s and we had some Sunrays, although they were all out of service by the time I arrived. Apparently the people who had them on their desktops rather liked the silence, although they became increasingly unimpressed with the performance.
(Video and audio was the final killer of all of our remote desktop efforts, partly because we were late to 1G Ethernet.)
Chris Siebenmann
@thomholwerda @mos_8502 I have the ghost of late-90s Sun on the line, and I think they toted along the Ultra 20 (2005+).
(Late 90s Sun workstations (x86 or otherwise) were not good workstations, they were increasingly unimpressive and terrible. But Sun sure sold them as workstations, even the x86 variants. The Ultra 20 line was by all accounts decent hardware although Sun wasn't really a workstation company by that point.)
Thom, absolute station wagon
@cks @mos_8502 I've got an Ultra 45. Sun was phoning it in hardware-wise, and spent everything else on the case design. 😄
I wrote a long article about the thing a few weeks ago:
https://www.osnews.com/story/143570/living-my-best-sun-microsystems-ecosystem-life-in-2025/
Thom, absolute station wagon
After I'm done writing about the HP c8000, anyone interested in a similar UNIX workstation writeup about my dual POWER9 machine? I've been itching to set it up as a FreeBSD machine for that real UNIX workstation feel.
And no, x86 workstations are not UNIX workstations. They just aren't. I don't make the rules.
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