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		rsync on April 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Freedom and security issues on x86 platforms Oh, so any sun sparc workstation of that era would work. Understood - thank you.

4ad on April 5, 2016 [–]

There is nothing open about Ultra 45 workstations in the context of this thread (it uses Open Firmware, but that's about it).

Note that Ultra 45 workstations are extremely slow, much slower than you expect. They were very slow even when they were new. Think Pentium 2 performance.

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