On Friday, 5 January 2018, Rupert Gallagher <r...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> The Intel flop hits the US .mil as well, because they depend on COTS > Xeons. > > I pity the Russians. I wonder if they pay through the nose for Oracle's > power hungry hardware, or make it cheaper and power efficient of their own. > > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 18:28, Jordan Geoghegan <jgeoghega...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > The Russians heavily use SPARC for aerospace/military applications as > well as their in house domestic-use-only Elbrus machines, for what I > imagine to be reasons precisely like this. @mail.com> SPARC architecture is open to others to develop their own CPU designs. The Russians are not forced to buy SPARC from Oracle.
