RE: http://www.obsolyte.com/

charshman wrote ...

Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:10
Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] http://www.obsolyte.com/

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Used to frequent obsolyte.com, sunsunsun.net, sunhelp.org, and I think  
there was one, blackbox.net or something like that?  (Predominantly  
NeXT oriented, as you might imagine.)

If I had to guess -- I'd say most of these sites were busy places  
around the turn of the century; lots of dot-com dollars made  
impractical "ooh, cool" purchases commonplace, lots of people trying  
to get started with Solaris skills or whathaveyou (Linux was on an  
upswing, but hadn't yet eclipsed Solaris for lots of commodity entry- 
level UNIX server tasks), and the hardware wasn't *that* outdated yet;  
Solaris 8 was (circa 2000) on the horizon, but 2.6 and 7 were  
commonplace and would run quite well on something like a SPARCstation  
Classic.  DEC Multias were still a "thing" in the late 90s, etc.

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Don Woodward replies ...

Thanks for mentioning sunsunsun.net - this brings back memories - I was one
of the co-owners along with my son and brother - we sold a lot of systems
and parts until the dot.com dollars were eclipsed by the dot.bomb and we
closed sunsunsun.net - I recently shutdown my only running Sun server at
home (an Ultra 5 that was an email relay) - I plan to setup Solaris x86
under VMWare Server just to keep my Solaris skills current.

Very best,

Don Woodward








 

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