Another once-bright star falling...

[Brad Parker]

"Julian Wolfe" wrote:
>
>I'm not worried.  I think Sun will be around many years from now.

Hmmm.  I believed that too, until two things happened to me: (1) I
discovered my customers where all starting to use dual-cpu x86_64 cpu's
and they where *blazingly* fast and (1) I spent some time with an HP
server salesman who showed me some very high end, very reliable x86_64
based servers from HP.

Back in the day ("are we off topic, yet?" :-), solaris was the most
reliable thing going for 2, 4 and 8-way servers.  And sun hardware was
very very reliable.  But I think that day has passed.  Too bad; I always
liked Andy "theese eess zee hardvare, and it verks" B. and his sparc
architecture.

(a friend worked on the sparc 1 and when andy delivered the first
hardware to the software folks he said "this is the hardware, and it
works!" - the famous last words, delivered with his accent.  needless to
say, there were bugs, so I always remember that and chuckle :-)

-brad