you can do that on a 1U or 2U server, which would be cheaper than a rare workstation on auction sites.

thers were some workstations, SGI Prism and Dell Precision Workstation 730, HP ZX2000, ZX6000, i2000

A simpler explanation would be that he's not a fascist.

CPB might have been useful 50 years ago, but with today's technology and access you can find all sorts of really good educational videos online.

And with the online stuff you can choose to avoid the ones that are politically biased.

Or seek them out. Both kinds are available in the new media.

Yes. All of the above.

Indeed. It also attracts malicious people because with a badge or the like they can mistreat others without punishment.

Thank you.

What I was referring to is that they probably do not understand that LLM-type AI is a bubble.

No. I have a Fairphone. No problems with updates.

Interesting. I was not aware of that.

There is no need for a new phone every year. Just get one that comes with updates for a longer time. Unless you use your phone to compensate for personality defects or are into dating women that only want guys with the newest iPhone (is this really a thing?), in which case, paying through your nose is kind of expected.

From my experience, I mostly find answers in several year old postings and even that not consistently enough. There is also a lot of bad answers. Not that LLM answers are any better. There is quite a bit of slop produced both by humans and machines.

and since some companies still run wares for hpux, the going rate for say base rx2800 at CDW is $30K-ish and up for which hp has authorized a 3rd party support and hp has "mature support" for the os, but on ebay you can find for under $4K which is "cheap" for that, needing disk, optical or maybe ram. For someone not familiar with the architecture I would not advise playing in that realm. i used to have hp boxen in my home lab for study for needed certifications, sgi and sun too... all bought used but I made money off of those things

they were wanted and used by many companies, I admined some in early 00's.

You can find plenty on ebay.

You don't want the noise or the electric bill. But Gentoo from 2024 with 6.6 kernel will run on one, or the install isos for various HP/UX are on internet archive.

hey Itanium could emulate x86 in hardware, a big promised feature that had customers excited... until reality found it did that at the speed of a Pentuium I. LOLZ.

That useless and embarassing feature was dropped from the architecture.

it was the first unix to have a logical volume manager, had ACL (useful to big business) and more recent versions could run virtual machines. Having admined it, Irix, SunOS and AIX since the mid 90s, it was as good or as bad as AIX. Solaris/SunOS was the best for ease of admin. Really having its fate tied to Itanium killed it, had the x86-64 port not been dropped by HP it would still be around for running proprietary wares like Oracle and SAP