A thing that I think has been hidden from us by some combination of the move to cloud on the server and to laptops and mobile devices for personal computing is how ridiculously affordable high end computers have become if you want a less portable form factor.
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My new workstation isn't a high end server by any stretch, but at 32 cores, 64GB of RAM, 1.5 TB of SSD, and 6TB of addirional hard drive, it's still only 50% more expensive than my rather more modestly specced laptop
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Also I still can't get over the fact that a workstation with 1.5 TB of RAM will only set you back about £16k.
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Replying to @DRMacIver
Having learned to program on the first megabyte in history, which cost a few million 2018 dollars, the concept of a gigabyte of RAM is hard for me to get my head around. https://ljkrakauer.com/LJK/60s/moby.htm …
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That’s a great story, really well told. Interesting how they had to search for a possibly classified prime polynomial in x to the 18th for their random number generator. Like…how did anyone even *do* anything?
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They lived in caves and ate dinosaurs
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