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by h2odragon 1032 days ago
From rumors I heard, for a while there before 2005, NASA was one of the biggest buyers of salvage sun4 hardware. they had multiple missions running on it and there were some particular high rate data input cards on mbus that were hard to duplicate on other platforms.

"we have a closet full of sparc 10s, we figure that'll be enough to last as long as the satellite"