Sun's attempt to build a massively multi-thread system failed at that time, it's interesting to see the direction we have moved, almost 20 years later again (I say this whilst building a "new" 2nd hand epyc system with 32 cores...)
Sun did this because they had a lot of issue building faster cores. The were very late on out of order processing and generally their CPU were never all that good.
And massive multi-thread system that doesn't even have FPU and is a slow in-order core isn't actually useful. Sun CPU deserved to fail.
Would there have ever been a pivot to the consumer market, or would it be stuck behind big iron like with IBM and whatever they have hiding under the hood?
