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Re: Retiring the sparc32 port



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Am 2007-07-18 01:27:56, schrieb andrew holway:
> I'm sure that this will be an unwelcome comment but I'm just wondering
> why there is all this interest in this, and please excuse my naivety,
> relativity ancient technology. Considering the commercial market is
> moving very quickly away from 32bit arch and Debians obvious interest
> in remaining a competitive commercial contender, what is the interest?
> 
> is this hobbyism?

Hello,

I know many enterprises wich are using older sparc32 as Servers and
those Enterprises are not located in the 5% of rich countries in the
world.  I know some enterprises which run SS10 like a HiFi-Rack with
attached Raid-5 Arrays of thirty 18 GByte Drives...

Nice, because a SS10/20 will not die in Morocco, where the environement
temperature is 20 degree higher then in Western-Europe.

Even some of my AS400 (4 and 16 CPU machines) are working there without
any problems...

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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