Hold up! Is that a SunOS?! This bad boy's been working...

Hold up! Is that a SunOS?! This bad boy's been working alone for 25 years running some critical app?! Those ancient 36GB SCSI drives are practically museum artifacts! And with only 4GB of RAM? My Android phone has more memory! 😂 This thing makes a Raspberry Pi look like a supercomputer. They sure don't build 'em like they used to...I must admit, Sun Microsystems had some serious engineering and reliability back in the day. I guess it will still work for another decade or so ☺️

Like 20 December at 22:24 | Open on mastodon.social

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Paul_IPv6

@nixCraft

well, as long as you never power down and spin down that disk :)

but yeah, i miss the pre-oracle sun kit. started using it in the sun/3 sunos days.

20 December at 22:26 | Open on infosec.exchange

Alan K. Martinez

@nixCraft If it's legit official SUN hardware and software shouldn't have a support contract associated with it?

I could be wrong but the investment bank that I used to work at had SUN hardware and we needed support for an issue and it cost us like hundreds of dollars just to have the tech walk through the door...

Wonder what that contract costs now...

20 December at 22:29 | Open on infosec.exchange

nixCraft 🐧

@akmartinez Nobody's buying them anymore because of Oracle. They ruined a truly iconic brand, and even if you could get a contract now, it'd cost a small fortune. Just MBA types doing their thing, I guess.