2 Jul
2016
2 Jul
'16
8:52 a.m.
This email is being run through a server
running Ubuntu on a headless Orange Pi PC.
This E-mail is being run through a server running AIX on a 2-way POWER6
(an IBM p520).
At $15, I'll probably buy a few more.
At $10,000 when I bought it (used!) in 2010 ... I, uh, ...
I did get a spare backplane for it recently which was around $1800.
However, the outside backup spool is a VM slice running FreeBSD because I
needed the redundancy; I used to have a peering arrangement with some of
my friends and buddies in different geographical areas but they've all
stopped running their own local hardware.
This may well be the last tank I own and operate. The next iteration might
just be one of those cheap ARM things.
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