> Do you have some evidence to back any of this up? The paper that I linked? > In that case, why not buy a smaller machine? Because they needed to support an

> Do you have some evidence to back any of this up? The paper that I linked? > In that case, why not buy a smaller machine? Because they needed to support an entire department or university worth of users, many of them at the same time. > It sounds completely fantastical/fabricated to me. Have you ever done serious work on a time-shared system? The kind where you type `w` and see a bunch of people who aren't you? Nowadays everybody gets their own workstation and can use as much or as little of it as they see fit, but on a shared system trying to use the whole thing is a great way to get people mad at you, because you're taking away resources they need for their own work. Not that you'd necessarily be allowed to use all that much in the first place, that's why things like `ulimit` exist.