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Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video] by wmf on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @03:57PM (#41713414)
No, if you just wanted a good Unix environment in 2007 you would buy an x86 workstation with Linux preinstalled which existed from multiple vendors/VARs. Or Mac.
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Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video] by Bluecobra on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @02:34PM (#41723709)
Solaris 10 worked pretty good on x86 and was free back then. Once Oracle acquired Sun, they eventually started to demand $1K per year per CPU core on hardware that wasn't made by Sun/Oracle.
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