What is a heaviest 'desktop' you ever own or work(-ing) on?

[bd139]

One of these would make a nice quiet desktop: https://youtu.be/eLVsnsGqzIY?t=1325

[olkipukki]

One of these would make a nice quiet desktop: https://youtu.be/eLVsnsGqzIY?t=1325

Ehhh...especially if you manage to plug it into a neighbor's socket 

Anyway, Sun is just boring, this is for a grow up kids 

[Wuerstchenhund]

I think the largest computers I used extensively for sometime was the quadroplex HP V-Class V2600 my business bought back in 2002 or so:



Each cube was a V2600 computer with 32 PA-8600 552MHz 64bit processors and 32GB RAM, all coupled via a common ring bus to a large single image system running HP-UX (originally 10.20, later I used 11i v1). Connected to it was a separate HP9000 B180L+ 64bit Workstation, however after upgrading to HP-UX 11i I stopped using it and used a Thin Client to connect to the V2600 directly.

A few details about these systems can be found here:
https://openpa.net/systems/hp-9000_v2500_v2600.html

There were a few other big systems, like a Compaq/DEC AlphaServer 8400:



Or a couple of Siemens RM600E running ReliantUNIX:



There were also large machines from SGI (Challenge XL, Onyx XL, Origin), Sun (E10k, E3500), IBM (RS/6000 SP2) and lots of the mid-size and smaller machines.

These days my largest personal desktop PC is a HP z840 with two 8-core XEONs and 512GB of RAM:

[bd139]

Ahh I worked on a baby N-class 9000 series. Nice machines. Apart from HP-SUX 

[Wuerstchenhund]

Ahh I worked on a baby N-class 9000 series. Nice machines. Apart from HP-SUX 

What did you call my favorite UNIX of that time? 

 

Well, HP-UX did suck before 10.20 but the 11 branch was really good (I used it on IA64 later as well), and I'm still disappointed that it wasn't ported to x64.

I also really liked AIX but this is probably just because I'm generally weird

On the other side, I was never particularly fond of IRIX or Tru64.

Good old times. If someone had told me back then that in 2020 we would have something like Windows 10 with forced updates, wide-ranging telemetry and half yearly releases which are like Service Packs just that there was no longer any quality control I'd probably thought he would take me a for a spin in the looney mobile 

[bd139]

Solaris fanboy so you'll have to fight me to the death  . Linux now. CentOS mostly.

Although and this is weird, I rather like windows 10. It mostly just does what it's told now. Even though it mostly runs PuTTY

[rsjsouza]

Solaris fanboy so you'll have to fight me to the death  . Linux now. CentOS mostly.

Although and this is weird, I rather like windows 10. It mostly just does what it's told now. Even though it mostly runs PuTTY

I liked Solaris as well... Even had the x86 version running on my home PC (Dual Pentium II 300MHz with 64MB RAM and two 15k rpm Seagate Cheetahs). I loved it but the lack of Solaris SW ported to x86 was a true deadend.

Although I like putty on *nix, my daily driver in Windows is TeraTerm.

[bd139]

Yeah it was nice. Ultra 30 + Cadence Virtuoso on CDE was peak Solaris here. That actually got me into the IT sector eventually where I reside today. Which is good because the money is better 

Didn’t know TeraTerm was still going!

[Wuerstchenhund]

Solaris fanboy so you'll have to fight me to the death  . Linux now. CentOS mostly.

Some CentOS here, too, although the majority is RHEL, Oracle Linux and SLES, with  mostly openSUSE for where support isn't needed.

Although and this is weird, I rather like windows 10. It mostly just does what it's told now. Even though it mostly runs PuTTY

I just can't get on with it, not just because the lack of quality control, the telemetry, the forced install of software, the ever increasing integration of advertisements or the re-distribution of some settings to awkward places. The dislike is new as I did like most Windows versions before W10 (my favorite version is Windows 8.1, and I did like Vista very much).

We have some W10 LTSB/LTSC machines which is mostly OK, but the non-LT variants I find pretty poor.

[rsjsouza]

Yeah it was nice. Ultra 30 + Cadence Virtuoso on CDE was peak Solaris here. That actually got me into the IT sector eventually where I reside today. Which is good because the money is better 

Didn’t know TeraTerm was still going!

I used Cadence on Sparcstations 4 and 5, but at the time our dream was a Ultra 1 - the only one at the IC design lab of the university and it was fiercely disputed by all the users on the lab.

Teraterm is still kicking and the old original Teraterm Pro excels in scripting serial sessions for the embedded Linux boards I need for my work, but it has several limitations for networked connections. The newer Teraterm is better at networking and thus my go to terminal for the servers around.

Ancient Teraterm Pro
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html

Newer Teraterm
https://ttssh2.osdn.jp/index.html.en