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A vintage advertisement for the SPARCstation 1. It emphasizes the power and affordability of the SPARCstation 1, claiming it to be the world’s most powerful desktop available at the price of a regular PC.
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Ulrich Popp :jf:
Ulrich Popp :jf:
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Pizzabox!!! 😀
I had a Sparcstation2 (afaik) and I ran Debian 2.1 on it. With 64MB RAM it worked, but it was also quite loud because of the 2x261MB-SCSI-HDDs.
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wytchmaster
wytchmaster
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nice device. I have a bunch of SPARCstation 2, SPARCstation 10 and never UltraSparcs in my basement. Very interesting devices ....
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Alexandra Lanes
Alexandra Lanes
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@Sarah Brown @Sinclair-System 7.5 Same. They were far less offensive than most of the other commercial unix boxes I adminned back in my first job.
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Alexandra Lanes
Alexandra Lanes
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@Sarah Brown @Sinclair-System 7.5 Utlrix the Unsteady. At that time I adminned Ultrix, OSF/1, Irix, AIX, SunOS 4, Solaris, HPUX and Xenix. The heady days of commercial Unix...
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davecb
davecb
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That was the advantage of the various Suns, either ten times the power at the same price on Motorola, or later 100 times the power at ten times the price on SPARC.
I had a Sun 3/60 for years
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