[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

[Andrew Gabriel]

Jacob Ritorto wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Andrew Gabriel <illumos at cucumber.demon.co.uk
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>> Do you have to stick with SPARC? Your Ultra 5 is going to be way slower
>> than any current (and many old) x86 systems, which are supported by all the
>> Illumos distributions.
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> I don't have to; it's just that I have a number of these good old machines
> around and they're quite adequate for what I'm working on.  OpenBSD seems
> to still support them, so maybe I'll give that a go.

Sure, but before spending much time on them, do bare in mind they are 
about same performance as a 15-20 year old Pentium II system.

You could probably move all their workloads to a single current x86 
system, and have loads of CPU capacity left over, and consume less power 
than a single Ultra 5.