On 5/29/13 7:04 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I've been working on getting shelving installed in
our Garage, and as a result, I've been digging
back to some systems that have been buried. Right now I'm moving a bunch of Sun
hardware and it hit
me. What good are old UNIX systems? I'm curious, what are people using things like
Sparc 2's
through 20's for? Or even Ultra 60's and older? Part of the problem I'm
looking at is that you can
get something like a Raspberry Pi that will cost a fraction of what a Sun system costs to
run.
I won't ask this about my two SGI O2's, as they're artwork.
BTW, I'll be honest, I'm actually using two Sparc 20's right now. Each one
sits on top of two Record
Crates, and acts as a speaker stand. They've filled that role for several years.
Somehow though,
furniture and artworks really aren't the uses I'm looking for. :-)
Zane
I ran a Sparc IPX upgraded to a Sparc 2 from '93 until 2013 as my personal firewall,
router, and
web server. It was completely reliable, but eventually I needed more disk space and a
higher
bandwidth uplink and economically it just made more sense to dump my land line/DSL, get
cable
and move to a service for web hosting. As far as I'm concerned, the Sparc platform is
bulletproof.
--tom