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Got a SPARCstation? You might have had to deal with the proprietary DIN port used for keyboard and mouse input. However, you need not look for outdated hardware anymore – …read more Continue reading An Open SPARCstation USB Keyboard&Mouse Adapter
When the IBM PC first came out, it was little more than a toy. The serious people had Sun or Apollo workstations. These ran Unix, and had nice (for the …read more Continue reading Relive the Glory Days of Sun Workstations
[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of the most commercially successful RISC processors during the 1980s and …read more Continue reading History of the SPARC CPU Architecture
A computer processor uses a so-called Instruction Set Architecture to talk with the world outside of its own circuitry. This ISA consists of a number of instructions, which essentially define the functionality of that processor, which explains why so many ISAs still exist today. It’s hard to find that one …read more
Continue reading RISC-V: Why The ISA Battles Aren’t Over Yet
There was a time when SPARC CPUs were the sole realm of pricey Sun workstations, but now you can put one on an FPGA with just a little trouble. The problem is you need a fairly big CPU which isn’t always cheap unless someone goes out of business and you …read more
I was wondering if there are any malware datasets for linux sparc ? I searched on google but only found:
https://vms.drweb.com/virus/?i=7754026
Thanks
Rana
Continue reading Malware Dataset linux on Sparc Architecture
For readers of A Certain Age, this may bring a tear to the eye. Reports have been circulating of the decision by Oracle to lay off a significant portion of the staff behind its Solaris operating system and SPARC processors, and that move spells the inevitable impending demise of those products. They bore the signature of Sun Microsystems, the late lamented workstation and software company swallowed up by the database giant in 2009.
So why might we here at Hackaday be reaching for our hankies over a proprietary UNIX flavour and a high-end microprocessor, neither of which are likely to …read more
