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> You can't deny that Sun hardware was top tier and always ahead of its time (until Oracle bought them).

From Brian Cantrill's original HN comment in 2011(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287033): "I never hesitated to tell anyone that was listening that our x86 boxes were starting to smoke the hell out of UltraSPARC". SPARC stopped being ahead of its time way before being bought by Oracle.

parent ragall 1 month ago

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