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cm0002@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

Whatever Happened to Unix Workstations?

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Whatever Happened to Unix Workstations?

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cm0002@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago
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These powerful computers ruled technical tasks in the '80s and '90s. Can you still find one today?
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    SGI was able to sputter along while graphics cards caught up. Still large systems had some incredible hardware stuff like interconnections that im afraid got lost to humanity.

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      Hey, at least the era of “all the world’s an x86-64” eventually ended.

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        lol. not really for me but I don’t use macs currently or smarphones really

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