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Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you,
 and you shouldn't care about Sparc64
To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
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On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> wrote:
> Over time, linimon@ and me independently tried to get more sparc64
> machines there but failed. As far as I was involved the goal was to
> get hardware being offered for donation in the US there but it
> turned out that's it's just impossible to coordinate that from over
> here. However, I've been told that the primary reason for getting rid
> of the collocation at Yahoo is to improve the situation with on-site
> maintenance. So getting sparc64 hosts set up it the project cluster
> may actually be feasible now. I probably should check with glen@.

Take heart, Marius - sparc64 is wanted. I still have this logo on my Ultra 30:

http://www.alaska.net/~royce/gfx/the-SPARC-to-serve.jpg

If hardware is needed, I would donate to support this.

Royce