(Ad Free) The Dawn of x86_64
Added 2025-09-06 04:06:50 +0000 UTCThe Sun Ultra 40 was a massive behemoth of a UNIX workstation that also happens to be the first "modern" x86_64 PC, thanks to it's AMD Opteron CPU.
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I realize this is probably a Philly only find, but I still want to know. Where did you get the Krimpet mouse?
Dante Blando
2025-09-06 22:56:03 +0000 UTCsun hardware was/is (where it still survives) still great! I still have 2 old x2200 rackmount devices that I only retired b/c of power costs. Now they just collect dust b/c I can't bring mmyself to dispose of them,
P Johnson
2025-09-06 16:01:34 +0000 UTCToss a modern GPU in it to see the ultimate in CPU bottlenecks haha
Robert Thompson
2025-09-06 14:01:23 +0000 UTCI wonder how MXlinux would perform on this hardware.
Procrastination
2025-09-06 07:49:50 +0000 UTCDo the Win11 install , as Pinhead said ”Your suffering will be legendary…even in hell”
Stuart Macleod
2025-09-06 07:27:28 +0000 UTC
