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I think they are running on old Sun Ultra workstations, not mainframes. Hardware easily replaced and upgraded with much faster, cheaper options. Difficulty is much more on the software side.


> I think they are running on old Sun Ultra workstations

It looks like it, though in this brochure there is a bunch of what look like Sun rackmount servers in the background as well:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120930072126/http://www.raythe...


Very interesting. Looks like the LITE STAR runs on the Workstation and the full STAR deployment runs on the servers.

But can you even buy these now? A new STAR server setup must be x86 and virtualized,no? Maybe even cloud?




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