That's from 1990, which is firmly from the "pet" era, not "cattle". Computers were scarce and expensive, virtualization wasn't a thing. Any random machine migh

That's from 1990, which is firmly from the "pet" era, not "cattle". Computers were scarce and expensive, virtualization wasn't a thing. Any random machine might turn out to do DHCP, FTP and payroll, just because the software had to go somewhere and that particular machine had the spare resources and was hooked up to the right network.