Post AQWhjkaLj5v9FTCuie by selea@social.linux.pizza
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(DIR) Post #AQWhjkaLj5v9FTCuie by selea@social.linux.pizza
2022-12-12T09:38:08Z
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The Mass Extinction of Unix Workstations Nice article by @thomholwerda https://www.osnews.com/story/135605/the-mass-extinction-of-unix-workstations/
(DIR) Post #AQWiJZHLF1OabgOawa by stemid@mastodon.se
2022-12-12T09:44:35Z
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@selea interesting. I also remember a lot of SUN Sparc servers were being replaced in the early 2000s. So it wasn't just an extinction of workstations of course.at my first job in 2004 I got an UltraSparc for free because they had migrated away from Sun.
(DIR) Post #AQWkKfpYZDFB7o3R4q by MadSci@focal.social
2022-12-12T10:07:05Z
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@selea @thomholwerda I re-live my commercial unix days by running bsd on whenever i can.
(DIR) Post #AQWkYC3i3QUQqN7ZTs by selea@social.linux.pizza
2022-12-12T10:09:38Z
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@MadSciOn x86 thou :'( @thomholwerda
(DIR) Post #AQWlSjNlLU8kPYSZqy by MadSci@focal.social
2022-12-12T10:19:49Z
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@selea @thomholwerda Sadly yep.Shifting to Graviton ARM now that aarch64 is a tier 1 platform.
(DIR) Post #AQWlpmbfWXLn4UxMQK by selea@social.linux.pizza
2022-12-12T10:24:03Z
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@MadSciBut thats AWS only :mortysad: @thomholwerda
(DIR) Post #AQWmR4mEvfYY8ngRt2 by selea@social.linux.pizza
2022-12-12T10:30:47Z
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@stemidThats nice, do you still have it?
(DIR) Post #AQWn2x5vwMRxJoxKZE by MadSci@focal.social
2022-12-12T10:37:33Z
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@selea @thomholwerda A start though?Bit of arm compute now. Macs etcMeanwhile RiscV sits on the sidelines…
(DIR) Post #AQWnaaUqSyFP4reAMq by stemid@mastodon.se
2022-12-12T10:43:40Z
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@selea haha no. maybe I did when I lived in Augustenborg around 2012, but there was a flood at some point and I lost 2 rack servers and the UltraSparc.It was suuuuper slow. old SCSI disk. it was used mostly for fun and as a shellbox for some friends. we're talking 15+ years ago here.but I remember a lot of stories of organisations migrating away from SUN around that time. never thought about the workstation side of it all tho.
(DIR) Post #AQX2ioHKbj29S0hkK8 by bishop6@mastodon.online
2022-12-12T13:33:13Z
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@selea @thomholwerda At my current job, which I've had for over 15 years now, I was first hired as a Unix workstation administrator. Now I do practically all Windows. So yeah, I've seen this happen in real-time. It can be like archaeology trying to delve into this stuff now.
(DIR) Post #AQXj5z9SXn9ZuMkvey by brazadela@mastodon.uno
2022-12-12T21:27:56Z
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@selea @thomholwerda the IRIX-based SGI O2 I had on my desk 20+ years ago has been the coolest and sexiest workstation I ever used.