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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2209449/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2209449/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Signs 200MW Offtake Agreement with Commonwealth Fusion Systems • Carbon Credits <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARC</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CarbonFreeEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonFreeEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CFS</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CleanEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CleanEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CommonwealthFusionSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommonwealthFusionSystems</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DataCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenter</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/fusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fusion</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USNuclear</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2209449/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2209449/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Signs 200MW Offtake Agreement with Commonwealth Fusion Systems • Carbon Credits <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARC</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CarbonFreeEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonFreeEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CFS</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CleanEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CleanEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CommonwealthFusionSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommonwealthFusionSystems</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DataCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenter</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/fusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fusion</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USNuclear</span></a></p>
Energy<p>Google Signs Deal to Buy Fusion Energy From Future Virginia Plant</p><p>Tech giant Google has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) to buy at…<br><a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARC</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CommonwealthFusionSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommonwealthFusionSystems</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/fusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fusion</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/massachusetts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>massachusetts</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Virginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Virginia</span></a><br><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2206263/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2206263/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
petersuber<p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> has released its own new info on the new <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NIH</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> policy.<br><a href="https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Update-to-NIH-PA-Policy-Deadline.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploa</span><span class="invisible">ds/2025/06/Update-to-NIH-PA-Policy-Deadline.pdf</span></a></p><p>Excerpt:</p><p>&lt;blockquote&gt;<br>● The Policy requires immediate public access to articles -- <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/embargoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>embargoes</span></a> are no longer allowed.<br>● NIH reiterates authors do not have to pay a fee to comply with the Policy.<br>● The Policy applies to manuscripts accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2025. This means the Policy will apply to existing grants if an article is accepted on or after that date.<br>● The Policy requires that final peer-reviewed manuscripts be submitted to <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PubMedCentral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PubMedCentral</span></a> (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PMC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PMC</span></a>) upon acceptance to be made publicly available immediately upon publication.<br>● The Policy requires that grantees explicitly grant the NIH the right to make the manuscript available in PMC without an embargo.<br>● The Policy does not explicitly grant full reuse rights of the manuscript to the public.<br>&lt;/blockquote&gt; </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Copyright</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Embargoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Embargoes</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GreenOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenOA</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicine</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NelsonMemo</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OSTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSTP</span></a></p>
Retro Markus 🇩🇰🇩🇪<p>Some period correct photography ... 1999 digicam imagiung a shelf with a Sun assortment.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sun</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/digicam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digicam</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a></p>
Freya (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩<p>Is there anyone in <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> or <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/NZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NZ</span></a>, or who would be willing to ship to NZ, who could donate a <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solaris</span></a> (sun4u/sun4v) machine to the building effort for FractalKit? We're running up against some limits and some really bad time sinks, doing all of this on a 650MHz <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/UltraSPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UltraSPARC</span></a> IIe is.... really really painful. We know this is a long shot, but if anyone out there has a machine they could donate to this we would be immensely thankful. This porting effort is really important to us but it's not going to be actually useful if a single library takes a day to compile. If you can't help, then please boost? <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@SolarisDiaspora" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SolarisDiaspora</span></a></span></p>
Freya (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩<p>Is there anyone in <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> or <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/NZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NZ</span></a>, or who would be willing to ship to NZ, who could donate a <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solaris</span></a> (sun4u/sun4v) machine to the building effort for FractalKit? We're running up against some limits and some really bad time sinks, doing all of this on a 650MHz <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/UltraSPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UltraSPARC</span></a> IIe is.... really really painful. We know this is a long shot, but if anyone out there has a machine they could donate to this we would be immensely thankful. This porting effort is really important to us but it's not going to be actually useful if a single library takes a day to compile.</p>
nia<p>The latest version of Pale Moon on a 550MHz NetBSD/sparc64 machine. The last portable web browser capable of opening YouTube - slowly, but stable.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a></p>
Retro Markus 🇩🇰🇩🇪<p>Loving the days when I get the IPX Up and running (scheduled function test any 6 months)</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sun</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/sparcstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sparcstation</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/risc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>risc</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ipx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ipx</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solaris</span></a></p>
nia<p>This is a collection of solutions to OpenFirmware and hardware issues for which I had difficulty finding answers as a first-time user of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sun</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a> hardware.</p><p><a href="https://netbsd.org/~nia/sun-blade-150.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">netbsd.org/~nia/sun-blade-150.</span><span class="invisible">html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/netbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solaris</span></a></p>
Retro Markus 🇩🇰🇩🇪<p>A great addition to the collection.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sun</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a></p>
bg nerilex<p>Ich habe gerade ein paar <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> bzw. <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintage</span></a> Computer abzugeben.</p><p>Folgenden Maschinen suchen ein neues Zuhause:</p><p> * <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sun</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a> station IPC<br> * Sun Ultra 5 (64 bit sparc)<br> * HP 712/60 (gecko <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PARISC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PARISC</span></a>)<br> * <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/MicroVAX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicroVAX</span></a> II (BA123)</p><p>Die Geräte müssten in Bochum abgeholt werden.</p><p>Von der <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VAX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VAX</span></a> habe ich gerade noch keine Bilder, da die noch im Keller sitzt.</p><p>Mir genügt es, wenn die Maschinen ein liebevolles Zuhause finden, und nicht dem Elektroschrott anheim fallen müssen.</p><p>🔄 Boosts welcome</p>
Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd<p>Anyone here familiar with SPARC binutils internals? I'm having a rather odd case where the same instruction (and same binary sequence) gets interpreted differently depending on who compiles it :cirnothinking: </p><p>Say, I have this `decode.s` file containing the following line:<br>decode: addxccc %g0, %g0, %g0</p><p>One VIS3 instruction, very simple. Then assemble it with both gcc and clang:<br>gcc -mcpu=niagara4 -c decode.s -o decode-gcc.o<br>clang -mcpu=niagara4 -c decode.s -o decode-clang.o</p><p>And now, if I run objdump on the files, the results are different:<br>decode-clang.o: file format elf64-sparc</p><p>Disassembly of section .text:</p><p>0000000000000000 &lt;decode&gt;:<br> 0: 81 b0 02 60 unknown</p><p>Compare with GCC's:<br>decode-gcc.o: file format elf64-sparc</p><p>Disassembly of section .text:</p><p>0000000000000000 &lt;decode&gt;:<br> 0: 81 b0 02 60 addxccc %g0, %g0, %g0</p><p>In both cases the binary stream is the same, but why does objdump decodes it as "unknown" with the clang-built file?</p><p><a href="https://uwu.social/tags/AskFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AskFedi</span></a> <a href="https://uwu.social/tags/Binutils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Binutils</span></a> <a href="https://uwu.social/tags/GCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GCC</span></a> <a href="https://uwu.social/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a></p>
petersuber<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lavaeolus</span></a></span> <br>Sure. I'd start with the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PublicAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAccess</span></a>) policies at federal research-funding agencies. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sparc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sparc</span></a></span>) made this guide a few years ago and it's still useful. But SPARC will soon upgrade it (or create an alternative) to include the new policies mandated by the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OSTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSTP</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NelsonMemo</span></a>. <br><a href="https://researchsharing.sparcopen.org/articles/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">researchsharing.sparcopen.org/</span><span class="invisible">articles/</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://functional.cafe/@dmbaturin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dmbaturin</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://furry.engineer/@nil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nil</span></a></span> yeah, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oracle</span></a> ruined <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpemSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpemSolaris</span></a>...</p><ul><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Illumos</span></a> as successor prokect hosever seems to still be up and running tho.</li></ul><p>And yes, you ain't the only ones disappointed.</p><ul><li>Been at places that did <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HPC</span></a> computing for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> and they were originally like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sun</span></a> fanboys who still had millions in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solaris</span></a> invested until Oracle backstabbed them.</li></ul><p>Nowadays they run <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>...</p>
Tom Lyon ✅<p>SPARC Open PROM Toolkit Reference Summary (1990) - full scan: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FvSH6pM1DERn5cI98gbaeVnqZofv0EQd/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drive.google.com/file/d/1FvSH6</span><span class="invisible">pM1DERn5cI98gbaeVnqZofv0EQd/view?usp=sharing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenBoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBoot</span></a></p>
Mike Gerdts<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://union.place/@tim" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tim</span></a></span> looks like the bottom two are an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sun</span></a> Ultra II and a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> 5 or maybe a SPARC 20. That second one includes a graphics adapter with a 13W3 connector. The three matching servers look like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Netra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netra</span></a> X1’s. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunMicrosystems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solaris</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://uwu.social/@koakuma" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>koakuma</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://woof.tech/@techokami" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>techokami</span></a></span> also <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UltraSparcT2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UltraSparcT2</span></a> as cool as it was at release (including dual 10Gbit-NICs and hardware RNG on die) has a lot of things noone would want to deal with in 2024 (i.e. DDR2-FBDIMMs).</p><ul><li>Plus <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RISCv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISCv</span></a> unlike <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SPARCv9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARCv9</span></a> amd <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenPOWER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenPOWER</span></a> was designed on a clean slate in academia by people who had dealt with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RISC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISC</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CISC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CISC</span></a> architectures and needed something <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> as they can't just violate NDAs nilly-willy for teaching.</li></ul><p>Pretty shure <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@stman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>stman</span></a></span> could write an entire curriculum on why <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPC</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/s390x" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>s390x</span></a> and even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ARM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARM</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ARM64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARM64</span></a> should not be pursued and why <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/mc68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mc68k</span></a> died alongside the unfixable-by-design mess that is <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ix86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ix86</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/amd64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amd64</span></a>.</p><ul><li>Plus RISCv's ISA has been an <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenStandard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStandard</span></a> from the get go, whereas the efforts by <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oracle</span></a> nee <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sun</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> were mostly done in reaction to it and to keep the few invested licensees and co-designers onboard and not drop the platform entirely...</li></ul><p>Look, I'd love to get my hands on some Sun SPARC Hardware but aside from making my room hot and noisy there isn't much to justify blowing likely over half a Euro per hour (electricity price: € 0,40/kWh) just to have it up and running, as compared to a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PiCluster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PiCluster</span></a> like those <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@geerlingguy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>geerlingguy</span></a></span> had built multiple times are more practical.</p><ul><li>For comparison: It's like driving a 2011 Ford CVPI-71 with a 11,9l SONNY'S SAR-729 engine for commuting from Leverkusen to Köln when there's ample of affordable, reliable and fast public transport that gets me faster from Opladen to Deutz than it takes to drive up the 15th deck of a parking garage just to find a spot to park that 5,7m long street yacht where one can climb out of it from the doors and not the trunk!</li></ul><p>And that's just bottom-billing, low-cost ARM SoC tech designed for a price tag (to the point that until the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Pi5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pi5</span></a> they neither included a power button nor <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RTC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RTC</span></a> onboard!</p><ul><li>OFC RISC-V is still 5-25+ years behind <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ARMv9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARMv9</span></a> solely based off <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patents</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>budget</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PersonnelHours" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PersonnelHours</span></a> invested in it, so it's barely getting on-par with 10-20yr old ARM devices in terms.of power and support.</li></ul>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://elekk.xyz/@nightshade" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nightshade</span></a></span> sadly noone has ported <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AmogOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmogOS</span></a> to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sus</span></a> hardware like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SPARCv9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARCv9</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> ...</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixLuhDxNktk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=ixLuhDxNkt</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a></p>
:debian: 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊 :opensuse:<p>How did this appear in my garage?</p><p>:sun: <br><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sun</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a></p>