>Nobody is going to buy a $30,000 UNIXcomputer!
Meanwhile Silicon Valley in 1998.
that's 28,000 in 2018 dollars.
Nobody is going to buy a $30,000 UNIXcomputer!
Aiden Turner
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Henry Roberts
The sgi onyx was quarter million dollars.
Samuel Flores
lets be honest, there is a huge difference between 1993 computers and post PPro wintel. Even the article says that wintel NT workstations were faster than the $17,000 Ultra 30
Oliver Jones
SPARC was really in the shitter on desktops by the late '90s, but others were alright. Nowhere near what they used to be, though.
Kayden Martin
risc/UNIX was in the shitter. By 2001 most dotcoms busted and places like Yahoo! moved to commodity intel/FreeBSD or Linux/intel.
It was all thanks to intel creating the Pentium PRO.
Carson Barnes
>with NT, you'd have to bring down your level of detail or drop your light source or slow [the application] down drastically
You can tell he's pulling shit out of his ass to save face there. Might have been true with early/mid-90s Wintel machines, sure as fuck not in 1999.
Landon Martinez
>a time when computers were still for only upper middle class
>workstations were unheard of for anyone but a business
>literally SGI was the only option for a graphics based workstation
Today there's plenty of options and the technology is obtainable by anyone.
It's like saying you can charge 1000 dollars today for a calculator because in the 60s that's how much they costed.
Pic related costed $1000 which is $8000 adjusted for today.
The first all electronic calculator.adjusted for today.
Jackson Perry
People paid that because UNIX systems were proprietary monopolies. UNIX is a useless shit meme now.
Owen Murphy
PC workstations regularly climbed into the five figure range as well, especially while you were shitting in diapers.
Bentley Nelson
You're not wrong at all, but it wasn't because the systems were all slow, they just weren't as mind-blowing as they used to be. The PA-8500 systems in that article were still quite advanced and decently faster than any Pentium II or Pentium III Xeon machine in a lot of applications, but the Xeon machine still did most of the same tasks just as acceptably, and was more versatile to boot.
It's still quite easy to pay in excess of $50,000 for a workstation. Things never changed beyond the stickers on the case.
Brandon Price
The hardware drove UNIX sales.
Floating point sucked ass on intel until the 2000's.
Hell, the first pentiums couldn't even do floating point correctly and was a huge scar on intel in the scientific/engineering computing industries. It took awhile for people to trust intel with accurate calculations.
Brody Ross
hah zuckerkike bought menlo park. sun had a corner on the unix workstation market. they worked with other companies to keep the industry weak. now 90% of servers run open source linux kernels. and a few mainframes can do what entire cities full of workstations could do 20 years ago
Carson Scott
Fuck sunfags desu.
Mason Myers
>and a few mainframes can do
who the fuck is still building mainframes?
Ryan Thomas
IBM
They're more about 100% uptime super redundancy and stupid amounts of fast io
For banks and shit.
I've never seen one myself.
There's also a lot of old mainframes still in use by smaller banks.
Elijah Thomas
IBM, Unisys, HP, pretty much all of the big companies that made them back then still make them in some form now. A lot of them are just ultra-reliable x86 machines, but IBM and its affiliates particularly still bother to actually engineer their shit.
Jackson Martin
mainframes are pretty much doing every bit of major research on earth AI is already here and it's unfucking our current batch of retarded ubernerd programers work every day
James Thomas
Mainframes of today are usually referred to as "supercomputers." What qualifies as a supercomputer changes over time though. Here's a list of some of the biggest systems on earth.
top500.org
They all run linux.
Owen Flores
>bunch of intel shit
meh.
Josiah Roberts
COSTED ISN'T THE WORD YOU WANT
Easton Cooper
mainframes are not supercomputers.
Blake James
more importantly are the cray/nvidia mainframes. all the armed services and several major research companies run x40s and the new x50
ibm mainframes still run world finance. theyr'e all capable of running linux but their actual functions are handled by proprietary software which in many cases like startegic command are know by a few virtually imprisoned scientists
Aiden Phillips
It was a different time. Eventually SGI and Sun had the rug pulled out from under them when CGI on cheap Windows NT boxes became a thing and people didn't have to pay $50,000 for UNIX workstation any longer.
I do miss my SGI boxes though.
Christian Diaz
amazon wasn't using SGI nor were they doing CGI numbnuts.
Maybe common gateway interfaces on webservers though.
Jack Gonzalez
An interesting blogpost about the first mozilla.org webserver.
It was a "spare" $40,000 sun ultra 2 with a $10,000 digitizer.
Jordan Morgan
some SGI's ran for upwards of $80k
Leo Ward
People were literally paying tens of thousands of dollars back in the 90s for a simple static html site.
The 90s were the Wild West of tech, most people didn't know dick about anything, people were getting fleeced 24/7.
This is why there was a bubble.
Lincoln Morales
>People were literally paying tens of thousands of dollars back in the 90s for a simple static html site.
no, and especially not in 1998.
Justin Myers
Microsoft had plenty of enemies back then, I'm sure they were able to scrape up enough money together to buy a single box from the Netscape bankruptcy auction. Especially in hindsight $50k is pretty much nothing compared to breaking down Microsoft's dominance over the entire Internet.
Charles Johnson
>ultra 2 came out in 1995
>mozilla was part of netscape in 1998
The ultra 2 was just a 3 year old $40k computer they had "sitting around" and used it as a webserver to host the mozilla group at netscape.
christ.
Dominic Campbell
yes they were you fucking idiot. i did some programming work for a game company in 1997. They paid $45,000 for a 3-page static website.
Nathan Murphy
lol no.
Xavier James
frontpage existed in 1997 you fucking shit for brains. Nobody was paying for static webpages. People were bitching at ISP's for not having front page extensions in apache though.
Ian Clark
>>bunch of intel shit
>meh.
At least Japan has kept Sun Sparc processors in production like this machine:
>K computer, SPARC64 VIIIfx 2.0GHz, Tofu interconnect
Fujitsu
This one was built a few years ago tho, down to number 18, and it's disheartening to see the Japs sellout to Intel cancer in later machines - they should stick to the nativism of Fujitsu license SPARC chips, banzai!