All my web-facing servers are running SPARC and/or for a couple smaller
projects, PowerPC. People thought I was a loon when I vehemently
insisted on SPARC over the years, and called me crazy when I hosted my
personal web projects on PowerPC. x86 is a disease.
A little bit extra in electricity costs, and a whole lot extra when it
comes to peace of mind - niche architectures ftw!
On 01/05/18 23:57, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
> http://www.mcst.ru/
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> On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 08:05, Jordan Geoghegan <jgeoghegan60@gmail.com
> <mailto:jgeoghegan60@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> They make their own via the /Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies./
>> Check out the Elbrus architecture, its pretty clever. It can run
>> native SPARC binaries and also has a fairly efficient x86
>> compatibility layer built into the hardware. The way they achieve
>> bi-endian capability is pretty neat, in addition to their
>> aggressively large (20+) instructions per cycle when running native
>> Elbrus code compiled with their VLIW support.
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