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by redroyal 1070 days ago
Ok maybe Oracle has a point here looking past their reputation.

Did you know Sun had a Mac mini like product back in the day based on dual UltraSPARC T2+ Coolthreads SoCs? I almost bought it off eBay

https://twitter.com/R_I_C_M/status/1646236005471485968

https://twitter.com/alanc/status/1585752213565018114

Wouldn’t it be nice if Oracle brought that back and made the ultimate open source dev box? Their latest SPARC processors are wild

2 comments

> Wouldn’t it be nice if Oracle brought that back and made the ultimate open source dev box?

That would be irrelevant to me. If Oracle is involved, I don't want to touch it with a 10-foot pole.

They also had the very cool Cobalt RAQ's.

Nowadays, such a dev-focused box (instead of a mini do-it-all server) might be structured like the Mac Mini.