[rescue] Wanted: Old Sun Hardware

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Wed Oct 14 12:26:38 CDT 2009


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:54:56AM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Richard wrote:
> >> I thought when it came to Sun hardware "old" was an adjective
> >>  reserved for 680x0 Suns.
> > 
> > By the 10-year rule, a Sun E6500 is "old".. as of last year, even.
> > 
> > Pat
> 
> How about "if the system's CPU doesn't have out of order execution it is
>  old" .
> 
> Maybe that is a better way to classify things.

Wouldn't that mean that Atoms and ARMs are old?



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