Also back then multicore wasn't as prevalent, it made sense to multiplex a zillion things onto one CPU process. Whereas now servers have hundreds of cores / SMT

Also back then multicore wasn't as prevalent, it made sense to multiplex a zillion things onto one CPU process. Whereas now servers have hundreds of cores / SMT vCPUs [1] and running a lot of processes makes much more sense. [1] https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-announces-3nm-epyc-turin-launching-with-192-cores-and-384-threads-in-second-half-of-2024-54x-faster-than-intel-xeon-in-ai-workload https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-announce...