[Eug-lug] OT: Sun hardware wanted

[Bill Essig]

I have Solaris 10 BTW.

Garl,

SGI isn't going to survive period.

I am well aware that both Sparc and SGI/IRIX are endangered, that is why I
want to tinker, while I still can. UNIX as we know it is dead, but I don't
mind. I was just looking at some old Sun boxes at the Register Guard with
Horst and that piqued my interest in this dying breed of computing.

Anything would be great, and I have ample funds to compensate for an Octane.

~Andrew/Bill/WhoeverYaAre


On 11/13/06, Garl Grigsby <badd_karma at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Bill Essig wrote:
> > I looking for any old Sun Microsystems hardware anyone would care to
> > donate (or money is good too).
> >
> > Reason is, I want to diversify and learn Solaris. You know the old
> > saying about keeping your friends close and enemies closer. Anything
> > is good, from the old 133 ultrasparcs to the brand new x86/64 blades ;-)
> >
> > Also, on the off chance that you all have some SGI/IRIX stuff, that
> > would be cool too.
> Bill,
>     I might be able to come up with a SGI/IRIX Octane box, but I'll have
> to check into what I've got in the back room.
>     Also, just so you know, most of the Big Iron Unix stuff is dying.
> SGI/IRIX is dead at the end of the year, at least officially.
> Practically it's already is dead [1]. SGI is trying to survive on the
> Altix/Linux stuff, but I don't think they have much hope. Too much debt,
> to many bad decisions.
>      HP has done the same thing with the PA-RISC processors [2]. They
> are dead. You can still get them, but they are getting rare. Everything
> they are shipping now is Itanium based, but that's got a short life as
> well. I'm fairly certain I heard from our internal development folks
> that they are also planning on killing HP-UX, but they haven't publicly
> announced it yet. Last I looked they were selling less than 30k HP-UX
> licenses a year [3].
>     Sun is killing the SPARC processor on everything but high end
> servers (think clusters). All of their low/mid range servers and desktop
> workstations are moving to Opteron. If you want to play with Solaris, do
> it on a x86 based system and download OpenSolaris.
>     The only 'Big-Iron' Unix server that is still being actively
> developed is IBM's AIX/PowerPC systems, but again, they aren't selling
> many licenses [3].
>
> HTH,
> Garl
>
>
> [1] http://www.sgi.com/support/mips_irix.html
> [2]
> http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=3D164302=
278
> [3] http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug012606-story05.html
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