What did Unix fans learn from the end of Unix workstations?
When the market for proprietary UNIX workstations collapsed, few vendors survived… and those that did seemed not to learn much from it.on"the mass extinction of UNIX workstations," and makes a some good points.
That's good news if you have the likes of an old SPARCstation in storage: You might be pleasantly surprised at what it'sAnother big issue, though, is what the knowledge and the skills are worth. There are many people running Linux servers today who learned and polished their skills on this stuff. There are multiple forms of value in keeping old machines running: educational value, in seeing how things were done. Lessons in performance optimization, resource usage, scalability, and so on.
If someone wants to restore such machines and keep them running, you would think it is in vendors' interests to help them. Not just for goodwill, but to help develop the skills of future
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