For anyone that might be looking for noisy, power-hungry, but inexpensive x86_64 machines with lots of cores and memory to play around with NIX, you may want to check recyclers like UNIXSurplus, REPC, 3RTechnology, etc.
As an example, about a year ago I bought a Supermicro 1U server from UNIXSurplus (2x Xeon E5-2667 -- 16 cores total, 128GB RAM) for $260. It is running linux and I use it as a qemu farm to test and try out different builds and flavors of Plan 9 without messing around with my stable environment. I suspect the prices reflect the fact that some are unpatchable for Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T03bb9c2eff40ac0e-M924845cff429a71cbd056fdf Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
