Why “fujitsu” is being discussed
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I'm saying Fujitsu never made any real attempt to sell their product to anyone except very large companies with purchasing departments. Thus it is little wonder they never reall…
by xenadu02 · Sep 22, 2026
It's the platform that's proprietary. Sun used a lot of open parts, but they had absolute control over the platform. Everything in your solution came from Sun or a Sun partner.…
by spauldo · Sep 21, 2026
> Difference is Sun was providing a "full stack" proprietary product including CPUs running a proprietary ISA, Unix OS, compiler, desktop environment and productivity apps. SPAR…
by throw0101a · Sep 21, 2026
First work computer was Sparc IPX, a brief dalliance with HP D and K series, then had various Ultra, and servers were all sorts including E10k then various SunFire, and the Fuji…
by time4tea · Sep 21, 2026
I am in tech (okay now I am really wondering what % of people on here are NOT in tech). I have spent years in Japan for work, and ironically right now as I type this, I am sitti…
by myrandomcomment · Sep 18, 2026
1 FPU for 8 cores is wild, but then again they were selling webservers. Still, iirc FPU's were silicon heavy back in those days and it'd be interesting to know how far ahead the…
by whizzter · Sep 18, 2026
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