thus Alan Coopersmith spake:
Timo Schoeler wrote:
thus Alan Coopersmith spake:
Octave Orgeron wrote:
Agreed.. this is definitely pushing the SPARC workstation market to an end.
Sun already ended sales of SPARC workstations several months ago -
there's no more pushing to that point to do.
Timo Schoeler timo.schoe...@riscworks.net wrote:
thus Alan Coopersmith spake:
Octave Orgeron wrote:
Agreed.. this is definitely pushing the SPARC workstation market to an end.
Sun already ended sales of SPARC workstations several months ago -
there's no more pushing to that point to
Hi,
Joerg Schilling píše v út 30. 12. 2008 v 13:49 +0100:
Timo Schoeler timo.schoe...@riscworks.net wrote:
thus Alan Coopersmith spake:
Octave Orgeron wrote:
Agreed.. this is definitely pushing the SPARC workstation market to an
end.
Sun already ended sales of SPARC
Timo Schoeler wrote:
thus Alan Coopersmith spake:
Octave Orgeron wrote:
Agreed.. this is definitely pushing the SPARC workstation market to an end.
Sun already ended sales of SPARC workstations several months ago -
there's no more pushing to that point to do.
IBM sells POWER-based
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:09:41 -0800 (PST) Octave Orgeron unixcons...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Well there is no doubt that the shift about 8-10 years ago at Sun to
focus on SMP servers caused the SPARC workstations to suffer. So
much focus was placed on making mid-range to high-end servers that
did
Octave Orgeron wrote:
Agreed.. this is definitely pushing the SPARC workstation market to an end.
Sun already ended sales of SPARC workstations several months ago -
there's no more pushing to that point to do.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com
Sun
thus Alan Coopersmith spake:
Octave Orgeron wrote:
Agreed.. this is definitely pushing the SPARC workstation market to an end.
Sun already ended sales of SPARC workstations several months ago -
there's no more pushing to that point to do.
IBM sells POWER-based workstations. I like
Martin Bochnig wrote:
***LOL***:
And here I thought the part you'd appreciate most was going to be
that no one downloaded the builds I announced either.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Octave Orgeron wrote:
I'm still at a loss as to what the thinking is around Xorg support on SPARC.
Supporting an 8-bit card in a world where many folks have upgraded, thanks to
ebay, to something more modern with 24-bit graphics is a bit backward. I hope
there are plans on supporting
Martin Bochnig wrote:
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote:
Martin Bochnig wrote:
***LOL***:
And here I thought the part you'd appreciate most was going to be
that no one downloaded the builds I announced either
No, why
Thanks folks for your input.
Yes, at first Sun EOL'ed the SPARC Desktop. No wonder that more and
more application vendors will drop that great platform, too.
One after another will do:-(
Instead of EOL'ing the U45 and U25, Sun should have thought twice
about their pricing (un-)policies.
They
On Dec 28, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
Unfortunately at the cost of some of their year-long loyal SUN*W*
SPARC customers (those who still need SPARC for misc. reasons).
I have to say that when Sun ceased production of the last SPARC
desktop, I winced a bit. And I agree, though,
***LOL***:
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote:
I've made updated test binary packages available for our upcoming integration
of Xorg 1.5 / Mesa 7.2 and all the associated driver updates for Nevada at:
Internal/NFS:
I'm still at a loss as to what the thinking is around Xorg support on SPARC.
Supporting an 8-bit card in a world where many folks have upgraded, thanks to
ebay, to something more modern with 24-bit graphics is a bit backward. I hope
there are plans on supporting something better. Just seems
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