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> I don't think x86 compatibility mattered. I'll admit I had a limited worldview, but not running Excel as quickly seemed like the kind of criticisms I saw in
by xscott 7y ago
> I don't think x86 compatibility mattered.
I'll admit I had a limited worldview, but not running Excel as quickly seemed like the kind of criticisms I saw in the trade rags at the time.
> the idea that a massive array of cheap x86 processors will outperform enterprise-class servers simply hadn't occurred to most people yet
Oh, I don't know. There was a really common Slashdot cliche running around at that time: "Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?"
- kragen 7y agoYeah, it had clearly occurred to everyone on Slashdot. On the other hand, we liked to "imagine Beowulf clusters" of all kinds of recondite hardware. Elbrus 2000 is real power! HOT GRITS!
- bloopernova 7y ago/. was another world, one that I miss sometimes. I'm probably viewing it through rose-tinted nostalgia, but I don't remember the vitriol and hatred that so many social sites are soaked in these days. The Mozilla open source announcement, the Microsoft anti-trust case, Linux exploding in popularity, it all felt like we were changing the world for the better.
- AnimalMuppet 7y ago/. was great... and then it wasn't. The troll population went way up, the "first post" thing was just noise, and eventually I just quit going there. HN is also less than it used to be, but I think that the mods have kept it better than /. became - so far, at least.