Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 12:50:03PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:06:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > So, I'd just like to re-emphasise this, because I still haven't seen
> > anything that counts as useful. I'm thinking something like "We use s390
> > to host 6231 scientific users on Debian in a manner compatible to the
> > workstations they use; the software we use is ....; we rely on having
> > security support from Debian because we need to be on the interweb 2;
> > ...". At the moment, the only use cases I'm confident exist are:
> >
> > m68k, mips, mipsel, hppa: I've got one in the basement, and I like
> > to brag that I run Debian on it; also I occassionally get some work out of
> > it, but it'd be trivial to replace with i386.
>
> Aren't the first three of these also actively being used in embedded
> applications? (not sure about that one; I'm not /that/ much involved
> with embedded stuff)
>
> I can also imagine some hppa boxes being used as test or development
> platform in the enterprise. Note that they were still being sold as new
> only a few years ago.
>...
HP still produces both workstations and servers with PA-RISK processors.
Note that 50 out of the 500 fastest computers in the world [1] are
computers with PA-RISK processors manufactured by HP in 2004.
cu
Adrian
[1] http://www.top500.org/
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