[geeks] New POWER9 motherboard coming out...

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 5:28 PM Jordan Geoghegan <jgeoghegan60 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I believe FreeBSD was looking at a little endian port to Power9 but
> alas, I fear I may never again see a modern day browser or similar
> behemoth run on a big endian arch. x86 is a cancer, and I fear it may be
> terminal at this point. There needs to be diversity for any ecosystem to
> thrive, and ARM certainly isn't the answer. It breaks my heart that
> Oracle threw away SPARC. Oh how I yearn the days when nearly every ISP,
> telecom and datacenter ran their critical infrastructure on SPARC and/or
> Alpha.B  Don't even get me started on SGI and hppa and god forbid, PPC.
>

I eye-rolled so hard reading this, I think I might be cross-eyed now.

Pat