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Journal by Allen Zadr on Thursday January 19, 2006 @12:49PM

I noticed that Sun has a new 8-core CPU - capable of running 32 simultaneous threads - on a SPARC. An UltraSPARC T1 processor. It's core speed is only 1.2 GHz, but the 8 cores more than makes up for it's raw processing speed deficiency. This is the best thing outside of AMD stuff I've seen in a long time.

Sun Fire T2000 Server (very busy, don't have time to find link).

Is this what Sun finally needed to become the premier RISC processing UNIX vendor again? For the true geeks among us, when will we get a port of the Linux Kernel for it?

I have a long standing soft-spot for Sun Micro, as I cut my Sysadmin teeth on an Sun-Sparc. So... am I dreaming, or is this really an accomplishment?

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We can dream... (Score:1)

by Philip K Dickhead ( 906971 ) writes:

I don't know - but I doubt it. We can dream. Alpha was also a killer CPU vs PII. Long gone, with DEC.

If we're wishing for ponies, can SGI come back?
- Re:We can dream... (Score:2)
  
  by FidelCatsro ( 861135 ) * writes:
  
  Alpha Vs. PII was like Optimus prime Vs. that robot from lost in space
  - Re:We can dream... (Score:1)
    
    by Philip K Dickhead ( 906971 ) writes:
    
    Such a confrontation is not advisable, Dr. Smith!
- Re:We can dream... (Score:2)
  
  by Allen Zadr ( 767458 ) * writes:
  
  DEC was dying the long death long before the Alpha actually came out.. sort of like Sun. With the major difference is that there are, today, still software companies besides database companies supporting Sun-Sparc-Solaris. Back in '93, IIRC, everyone had given up on DEC from a software perspective ... strangely, only Microsoft gave them a chance (but I think that was more to rattle Intel, than to actually support Alphas.
  - Re:We can dream... (Score:1)
    
    by Philip K Dickhead ( 906971 ) writes:
    
    Oh. Agreed, really. DEC? Worst victim of "Not Invented Here" syndrome. DECnet is better than IP. Rainbow is better than PC. VMS is better than UNIX.
    
    The biggest mistake - techology this good markets itself.
    
    They were better in everyone of these technical points - too bad they didn't know better isn't always "better" - especially when it involves proprietary (dis)advantages.

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