[hparadiz]

I got paid by my university to decommission and throw out a bunch of Sun SPARC rack mounts. Like anything else these machines had to be maintained except due to licensing issues they were always susceptible to exploits, were woefully out of date, and were missing major utilities that existed on Linux by this point due to again licensing issues. And because no one bothered to compile for SPARC pretty much installing anything modern required very slowly compiling everything and hoping you didn't get a weird SPARC only machine error in the compiler which actually happened quite a bit. Even worse I remember at the time my gaming laptop that I used for university coding work was already much faster. The one benefit from the experience was that it really drove home just how hard it is to maintain a cpu arch that isn't popular.