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Of the Love of Oldtimers - Dusting Off a Sun Fire V1280 Server

Posted by Unknown on from the mine-bitcoins-while-heating-your-home dept.

vikingpower writes "Today, I decided to acquire a refurbished Sun Fire V1280 server, with 8 CPUs. The machine will soon or may already belong to a certain history of computing. This project is not about high-performance computing, much more about lovingly dusting off and maintaining a piece of hardware considered quirky by 2013 standards. And Now the question creeps to mind: what software would Slashdotters run on such a beast, once it is upgraded to 12 procs and, say, 24 GiB of RAM ?"

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  1. Hmm. by smegfault · · Score: 3, Funny

    All maxed out it might just be able to run the newest Ubuntu.

  2. Re:North Korea just set off a nuke by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    That wasn't a nuke being set off - it was just vikingpower turning that V1280 on.

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    #DeleteChrome
  3. Re:I must be getting old by red+crab · · Score: 4, Funny

    I concur, this machine isn't old at all by Slashdot Unix Graybeard Users standards. What should i call my HP-UX PA-RISC B2000 workstation after reading this story; manufactured somewhere around BC?

  4. Re:I must be getting old by Rockoon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've got post-it notes on my desk older than this thing.

    Still havent called mom.

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    "His name was James Damore."
  5. Re:I must be getting old by Trouvist · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've got post-it notes on my desk older than this thing. Still havent called mom.

    But isn't she just upstairs?