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There Will Be Penalty posted:
these were really good computers. too bad RAM was so expensive that every one of them was sold with too little memory to boot without hitting swap edit: and don't forget, this is the line of workstations that they made this promo video for. this video is the proest click, do not miss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLTh4uVJduI
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atomicthumbs posted:the 90s (and, declining, the 00s) was the last time there were several competitive microarchitectures and you could buy a "workstation" computer that was in some way special and different from a normal computer to be fair, workstations still exist. they are just much, much bigger versions of your bog standard pc. the workstation didn't disappear, just PCs running linux got big and good enough to supplant it
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akadajet posted:those monitors were running at 24hz to sync with the camera shutters. probably looked like a flickery mess on set lol how does that work is there some kind of camera shutter <=> genlock thinger?
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eschaton posted:yes indeed whats it called because i want to google it and sit staring at spec sheets and advertisements for an hour
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atomicthumbs posted:which is incredibly lame as hell it's not sexy, no. but the sex appeal was always secondary in workstations. they only started with all the weird over-engineering because all the vendors had significant pricing power and could pass the costs through
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eschaton posted:the "weird over-engineering" was also important for certain workloads yeah that wasn't the weird part. that was the part that was easily commoditized. the vendors didn't compete on supporting half a gig of ram. hp, sun, ibm, sgi, and dec were all happy to respond to that rfp they competed on fancy case designs. on "multimedia" integrations. on all kinds of weird fuckin software things. the baseline was set by the same constraints as we face today, but the margin, where the oligopolists competed, was a weird fuckin terrain
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