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Re:The Helios microkernel by cmrdporcupine on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:48PM (#31770793)
Yeah it was a crazy time to watch the whole bottom of the workstation market fall out. Solaris managed to hold on in datacentres for a while, but the others not as much. And a 486 or Pentium running Linux was just as good as most proprietary Unix at the time, or was well on its way to getting there.

I did a summer contract job at an IBM subsidiary in summer 98 or so, and I had a manager there fight me on installing Linux on some spare PCs, because he thought they should be running, y'know, SCO. A Real Unix. It already looked preposterous by then.

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Re:The Helios microkernel by jacquesm on Friday June 17, 2022 @09:27AM (#31777818)
One of those SUN pizza boxes held out so long that the bearings on the drives were completely worn out, everything was moved onto a different machine and when it was powered down you could hear the harddrives have a most horrible crash. The drives would not even spin when powered up again.
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