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>>> 2024-08-31 ipmi (PDF) I am making steady progress towards moving the Computers Are Bad enterprise cloud to its new home, here in New Mexico. One of the steps in this process is, of course, purchasing a new server...
The PC revolution instilled a WinTel monoculture in much of client-side computing by the mid-'90s, but it remained common into the '00s for servers to run entirely different operating systems and architectures. Indeed, one of the key commercial contributions of Java was the way it allowed enterprise applications to be written for a Solaris/SPARC backend while enabling code reuse for clients that ran on either stalwarts like Unix/RISC or "modern" business computing environments like Windows/x86. Some sort of local operator interface (this term itself being a very old one), like an LCD matrix display or grid of LED indicators, providing low-level information on hardware health.
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