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Troy1
August 9th, 2007, 16:35
Just kidding :P
Decker
August 9th, 2007, 17:23
Just kidding :P

Aw - I could - which revision?

Still got about 8 Alpha servers doing nowt :eek3:
Troy1
August 9th, 2007, 17:24
Sorry to mislead you :).
Decker
August 9th, 2007, 19:48
Damn - well only 5 running Solaris, 3 running Unix.
So :P

Older boxes running customer sites and apps and going fine - it's a great OS :D
Troy1
August 9th, 2007, 20:06
It actually is pretty nice. I guess they just didn't market it well enough because it doesn't seem very common. Same with IRIX and (a bit older) Amiga.
Decker
August 9th, 2007, 20:31
It actually is pretty nice. I guess they just didn't market it well enough because it doesn't seem very common. Same with IRIX and (a bit older) Amiga.

Solaris isn't marketed?

Just google Solaris, and if your talking about Amiga as in workbench (probably not) IRIX is old and gone (Silicon couldn't keep it up), try VME for a system then :P way better.
Troy1
August 9th, 2007, 22:55
Solaris isn't marketed?

Just google Solaris

Spoke too soon, had way more hits than Linux! I just never seemed to hear about it much I guess. Mostly I see it running on older machines people have lying around, those that were made by sun but too expensive an initial investment to trash.
power4hosting
August 10th, 2007, 04:36
lol i was not knowing about such type of OS, but good i came to know about it, with this post :-)
krakjoe
August 10th, 2007, 05:29
It actually is pretty nice. I guess they just didn't market it well enough because it doesn't seem very common. Same with IRIX and (a bit older) Amiga.

I think Irix is still used by the commercial industry, I can't remember the name of it but a couple of years ago I did a little contracting for a company that used Irix and a load of kvm switches to allow everyone in the company access to all the same stuff without having a pc on each desk, the applications were crap like and the computers felt horrible, but it cost em a fraction of the price of kitting out each desk with a seperate pc .....
Decker
August 10th, 2007, 07:24
Think a lot of those systems used Wyse terms and exploited good old (true) multi user OS features, crap apps but did the job :)
Troy1
August 10th, 2007, 09:51
I think Irix is still used by the commercial industry, I can't remember the name of it but a couple of years ago I did a little contracting for a company that used Irix and a load of kvm switches to allow everyone in the company access to all the same stuff without having a pc on each desk, the applications were crap like and the computers felt horrible, but it cost em a fraction of the price of kitting out each desk with a seperate pc .....

The only thing vaguely cool about IRIX is that all the icons are vector graphics. Still, they could at least work to make them not look so ----ty! I'm not an IRIX fan, but anything that allows people to squeeze more life out of the mainframe they originally paid way too much for (but is now worth 45 bucks on eBay) will last forever.