[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

[Jacob Ritorto]

Well, true, but while I'm pretty pleased with and interested in helping
with Illumos et al, I'm just not that interested in owning a pc.  I have
quite a number of SPARC machines and I'm fine with the performance of the
thing - this isn't a processor-intensive load, as you might imagine.

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Andrew Gabriel <illumos at cucumber.demon.co.uk
> wrote:

> Jacob Ritorto wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Andrew Gabriel <
>> illumos at cucumber.demon.co.uk
>>
>>
>>> wrote:
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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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>
>
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