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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 01:51:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 06:58:37 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:

> You can buy POWER9 machines from RaptorCS.  The command prompt does not
> look different from AMD64, but of course the coolness factor is much
> higher.

Linux is Linux. There was an article on theinquirer.net (defunct now) some 
years ago where a guy from SGI was giving an interactive demo (remotely, 
via SSH) on a thousand-core Altix super. It still looked like a Linux 
system. Though commands like “lspci” and “lscpu” produced output that went 
on ... and on ... and on ...