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So now I can go from my desktop --> host system --> router vm --> destination vm , without having to stop and type another SSH command at each hop. After my previous message I played around with the "ProxyJump" directive in .ssh/config which made it even easier; now I can just type a command to SSH to the server I want and the client figures out the jump hosts to use to get there. Very cool!
I never got into BSDI but I heard it had some devoted fans.
Well, that was a commercial BSD. I remember my local ISP used it back in the dialup days in Maine.
Now that dialup is dead, most of the dialups that survived live on as IT service providers, some as small web hosting companies. Cloud 9 shuttered its data center and moved its hosting infrastructure into a cage inside a local colocation provider (no extra points for guessing which one). WestNet seems to have been reduced to nothing more than an email service, presumably for hangers-on who didn't want to change their addresses. There was a third one around here, but I can't remember its name so I don't know what became of them, if anything.[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[A[A[A[A[A[A[A[A[A[A[A[A[A [A[A[A[A[A[A[A[A
What I can say is that I suffered, as an IT crew, the last days of HP/UX and IBM AIX and their respectives HP9000 and RS/6000 architectures.
Application development was pushing hard with an unstoppable thirsty of memory, io and CPU and these architectures had already grew to their maximum capabilites. Then daily and nightly crashes came. JVM ran out of memory. Oracle ran out of memory. The operating systems ran out of semaphores. Locks everywhere. Crashes and more crashes. This situation lasted up to 2010-2012.
Then, Linux and Intel came by multiplying per 10 the memory, the CPU. Also the virtualisation was largely implemented in the form of Xen or VMware. No more crashes. Then peaceful nights came and I eventually could watch a full movie at the cinema with no oracle.restart.sh interruptions.
I experienced that twice in my work life in two very different sectors.
There was a time when even underpowered Unix Iron could outperform newer x86 hardware, but those days are long gone. Let us raise a glass to the memory of the good ones, and to the demise of the awful ones.
Agreed, we still have one in the back room at the main data center. And a 2nd out on our DR site ( we used to have small ones spread out into many of the remote offices.. those days are gone now )
Tho to be fair, its down to 2 apps now and they are working to get them off and onto 'generic' platforms by the end of the year....
Heh. AIX is still around, running on POWER10, but I'm sure most of those machines are running "System i" to keep the legacy AS/400 apps running. This is funny: the current AIX web site says "Build cloud native apps and co-locate with AIX." As if anyone is going to go through the trouble of containerizing their applications and then run them on an overgrown RS/6000 instead of commodity hardware.
There was a time when even underpowered Unix Iron could outperform newer x86 hardware, but those days are long gone. Let us raise a glass to the memory of the good ones, and to the demise of the awful ones.
I totally agree, IG. On the other hand, ex workmates who I am still in touch with defend the POWER and AIX tandem with a stallmanish fervour.
I managed POWER virtualisation on z-Series for AIX and Suse Linux guests. It was magic on 2004 to see popping up a new CPU in top real time but that HMC tool was tedious to use (we used it through an X terminal IIRC) and nowadays the most basic Xen or Proxmox environment performs equal or better with more modern technologies (Ceph, clustering...) and, important, for less euros.
The same on Fujitsu's Primepower and Sun's LD.
Those Old Guard machines fell on the nostalgia side. It's not bad. We have feelings!
Which is a shame. I was trilled when Apple put it in desktops. ( ya i do realize PowerPC is a subset of Power, but still in the same family.. )
The POWER architecture *is* pretty awesome. It's just too expensive for mainstream computing at this point.
And Amiga with PPC boards which made us call the first Pentium processors "Lentium" which, in Catalan, lent means slow.
Which is a shame. I was trilled when Apple put it in desktops. ( ya i do realize PowerPC is a subset of Power, but still in the same family.. )
i do realize PowerPC is a subset of Power, but still in the same
A subset perhaps, but Linux treated POWER and PowerPC as the same architecture.
I'm going to take an educated guess that the difference consisted of instructions and registers that only mattered to AS/400 workloads. And that's fine, of course; no one wanted to run AS/400 software on a Power Mac (although that would be really funny).