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I guess it was not only unknown for the public. Processors had been so slow nobody most often you did use one server for one application, those machines did not
by tpetry 6y ago
I guess it was not only unknown for the public. Processors had been so slow nobody most often you did use one server for one application, those machines did not have enough compute power for multiple workloads simultaneously.
- morelisp 6y agoTimesharing was dominant from the 70s up to the start of the PC era, and never really went away on the server side. Performance gains vs. tool cost have been sublinear for decades now; servers used to do only a little less with a lot less.