Sun injects Euro universities with OpenSparc

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Not quite old news. #

Posted Wednesday 5th November 2008 19:44 GMT

You may have heard of Sunsite?

sunsite.unc.edu

sunsite.ualberta.ca

sunsite.<dozens or hundreds of other ones>

Anonymous Coward

Itaniuam? #

Posted Wednesday 5th November 2008 20:54 GMT

"if they indeed ever come to market, and some days it seems doubtful, just like the early years for the Itanium"

What about the current days? Will we ever see Poulson? I doubt it. We may not even ever see Tukwila. Does Intel even take Itanium seriously anymore? At least more than one vendor is building Sparc chips. If Sun screws up (as they're wont to do), then there are several others that are there to build and pull Suns butt out of the fire (see Fujitsu).

Anonymous Coward

BSD #

Posted Wednesday 5th November 2008 21:40 GMT

"University of California at Berkeley for the operating system that would eventually become Solaris"

For Solaris 1.x (aka SunOS 4.x) maybe. Solaris 2.x (aka SunOS 5.x) is SysV-based, NOT BSD!

Robert

Feedback loop mistake #

Posted Wednesday 5th November 2008 21:40 GMT

You can't say that things start in academia and then get commercialized; it ain't that simple. In this case, Unix didn't start at Berkely and move to Sun for commercialization as Solaris. It started at AT&T Bell Labs, and moved to Berkely and then to Sun. Admittedly, Bell Labs was a commercial version of an academic environment (RIP), like Xerox PARC.

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Open microprocessors are a joke #

Posted Thursday 6th November 2008 10:38 GMT

Got $4B?...you might be able to build a SPARC chip that will participate in SPARC immediate decline

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