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1. Misty (misty@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-May-2022 23:28:45 UTC Misty

   Spending my Saturday learning about computers

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 21-May-2022 23:29:11 UTC Bernie

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     @misty Oh wow, mobile SPARC and the MIPS-based IRIS Indigo!

     Those were absolutely exotic machines in the '90s. In Italy, only the top universities and research centers had UNIX workstations... the rest was all Wintel PC clones.

     #retrocomputing #unix

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 21-May-2022 23:38:43 UTC Bernie

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     The fanciest machine I ever owned was a Sun SPARCstation 5 with Solaris 7:
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation_5

     It was both great and terrible. Compared to a contemporary PC, the motherboard looked like alien technology. But within 1-2 years, you could buy a faster PC for 1/5th of the price and put Linux on it. By the end of the 90's, Linux had better development tools and a nicer desktop than Solaris' horrible CDE.

     @misty #unix #linux #sun #solaris #retrocomputing