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Dave Fischer

Thinking about selling my Sun TAAC-1 VLIW board. Introduced in 1987, it was a coprocessor for VME Sun-3 systems, and the world's first "Board Level General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit", according to some.

Approximately 400 were made.

Photogenic little beastie, among other things.

If you're interested, please email: dave@cca.org

A large board filled with ram chaps, 4 DAC's and 8 BNC connectors.
A large board with five larger ASICs and a ton of assorted smaller chips.
A closeup of a dense field of vertical ram chips.
A closeup of a few ASICs on a Sun graphics board from 1987.
#Sun#SunMicrosystems#VLIW
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Raccoon🏳️‍🌈

Randomly thinking about this the other day, still think it's crazy that #Java was this huge important #ProgrammingLanguage when I was first learning to program back in the 2000s, then #SunMicrosystems was bought by #Oracle in the 2010s when I was teaching for the certifications, and now in the 2020s it's become this depreciated legacy language. The success of the less-portable and less-learned copycat .Net and staying power of the older #Python shows there was clearly a market for Java to continue, but the large #corporation was so much more interested in filing lawsuits against people who were doing things with the language than actually developing it further with modern features, they actually managed to push it into obscurity.

And we can't forget that this was a MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR LOSS. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS had been spent to build up infrastructure to support the widespread use of this language across the industry, so when they dropped all support, and all of that became obsolete for no other reason.

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Jamie Booth

I've been troubleshooting an install issue with Solaris 10 (on an Ultra 5). It kept giving me "Fast Data Access MMU Miss" which seems to be bad memory, processor, or motherboard.

Nope. The system had 256MB of RAM. Doubled that to 512MB with the spare RAM I ordered for troubleshooting and it installs just fine. System requirements say 256MB is the minimum, but it doesn't seem that way.

Now, what do I do with all this spare hardware....

#retrocomputing
#SunMicrosystems
#Solaris

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