[geeks] New POWER9 motherboard coming out...

[Jordan Geoghegan]

On 2/7/19 6:11 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 5:28 PM Jordan Geoghegan <jgeoghegan60 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I believe FreeBSD was looking at a little endian port to Power9 but
>> alas, I fear I may never again see a modern day browser or similar
>> behemoth run on a big endian arch. x86 is a cancer, and I fear it may be
>> terminal at this point. There needs to be diversity for any ecosystem to
>> thrive, and ARM certainly isn't the answer. It breaks my heart that
>> Oracle threw away SPARC. Oh how I yearn the days when nearly every ISP,
>> telecom and datacenter ran their critical infrastructure on SPARC and/or
>> Alpha.B  Don't even get me started on SGI and hppa and god forbid, PPC.
>>
> I eye-rolled so hard reading this, I think I might be cross-eyed now.
>
> Pat
> _______________________________________________

Enjoy your x86 monoculture and Management Engine overlords.