Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : tenser
Date : Thu Dec 15 2022 11:30:16

On 14 Dec 2022 at 06:35a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
 
 pF> -=> tenser wrote to esc <=-
 pF> 
 pF>  te> A PC with a Pentium
 pF>  te> was only half as good as a SPARCstation or SGI, but a quarter
 pF>  te> of the cost, and the trend line was heading towards favoring the
 pF>  te> PC within a decade.
 pF> 
 pF> In 1999, I ran the web site for a company that used a Sun Enterprise 250
 pF> for  Oracle and an Ultra 2 for the web front-end running Tomcat. When we
 pF> expanded  the site, I bought several 1u intel boxes and threw Linux on
 pF> them, and they  ran the web site. I'm pretty sure they cost less than
 pF> another Ultra 2. That  was the tipping point for me.

I bet you're right.  A few years later, they were faster
than the Ultra, too.

I was sad when SPARC was canc'd last year, but it was past
time.  Register windows and soft TLBs were nifty for the
time, but in the harsh light of experience, proven not to
be as cool as was initially thought.

And it'll live on in the embedded space.

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