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It makes sense since the cost of computing has come down, but it's funny to see the cyclical nature of it all. The web was run on beefy SPARC and NeXT workstat
by bsimpson 1y ago
It makes sense since the cost of computing has come down, but it's funny to see the cyclical nature of it all.
The web was run on beefy SPARC and NeXT workstations until Google came along and sharded it out onto cheap off-the-shelf hardware. Then containerization/virtualization started replicating individual machines as VMs to try to give you root-access control on timeshared hardware. Now computing is cheap, and the OP is advocating for "just make each container its own device."
- Jolter 1y agoYour larger point is well made, but a nitpick: between the NeXT workstation (the early 90's) and cheap COTS server hardware (the late 00s) was the era of big heavy servers, not workstations. Sun made some really amazing server hardware and we should not forget the abomination that was the Dell Blade server!