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Everything from 1997-2000 was really just magical That it was. I worked at a small computer animation studio around that time, and that was when a home built '
by dagw 5y ago
Everything from 1997-2000 was really just magical
That it was. I worked at a small computer animation studio around that time, and that was when a home built 'cheap' Intel machine with a GeForce cards started to first match and then surpass our high end SGI and Intergraph machines costing 5-10 as much in many workloads.
When I left almost all our animators where using 'home built' computers with Nvidia cards.
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoI have an SGI Indigo in my basement because at work they figured out that a PC running Windows NT had better performance, so all the SGI workstations went into the dumpster.
- rograndom 5y agoSome what similar for me, in the mid-2000's I was at a design agency that was moving to PHP/MySQL development. Mostly a Mac shop, but the development server was some HP thing we got from best buy for like $400. Put Red Hat on it and did nothing else, just whatever the default PHP/MySQL package was. No tuning or anything. A little while later, Apple released the G4 xServe. We bought 2 loaded with the largest disks at the cost of several thousand dollars. But hey, OSX Server. It has PHP & MySQL and is rack mountable, etc. We also used them for file servers for all the design files. Got all of our development sites migrated over and the performance was noticeable worse. The HP was at least 4 times faster serving up the sites. It was amazing.