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(Ad Free) The Dawn of x86_64
🕑 Added 2025-09-06 04:06:50 +0000 UTCThe Sun Ultra 40 was a massive behemoth of a UNIX workstation that also happens to be the first "modern" x86_64 PC, thanks to it's AMD Opteron CPU.
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Dante Blando
I realize this is probably a Philly only find, but I still want to know. Where did you get the Krimpet mouse?
P Johnson
sun hardware was/is (where it still survives) still great! I still have 2 old x2200 rackmount devices that I only retired b/c of power costs. Now they just collect dust b/c I can't bring mmyself to dispose of them,
Robert Thompson
Toss a modern GPU in it to see the ultimate in CPU bottlenecks haha
Procrastination
I wonder how MXlinux would perform on this hardware.
Stuart Macleod
Do the Win11 install , as Pinhead said ”Your suffering will be legendary…even in hell”
