Jeff GeerlingDid you know Apple used to sell rackmount servers?
In today's #MARCHintosh video, I restore an Xserve G5, and explore what made these machines tick—and some reasons why Apple stopped selling them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFnvZ4NWr00
ResunaWe bought a handful of Xserve G4s to use in a colo and discovered they were too deep to physically fit in the racks, they ended up acting as the "desktops" of any developers who were willing to ignore the sound.
The colo ended up with a mix of HP DL360s running Linux and 1u or 2u Alphaservers running Tru64.
@resuna Haha, they are pretty deep servers. I was surprised as I have a 6-node Arm server under the Xserve, with 24 CPU cores, probably 5x faster than it... and it's shallower by a lot, with space for more hard drives inside!
Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.@geerlingguy @resuna osX running on a rack mount IBM POWER5 server was what would have been cool and while perhaps technically feasible, nobody would have agreed to do it.