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A few years later, I ended up at the DEC GEM compiler project but by then the Alpha code generator / optimizer were fairly developed already.
Then I went to HP and worked on the PA-WW --> Itanium code generator.
Good times.
Even 10-15 years later, multiple CPUs and 128Mb RAM was quite uncommon. How much did this beast cost back in the 80s? Edit: Max configs were up to $250,000 ($663,937.02 today) back then according to this price list: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/apollo/Apollo_Price_List_Jul88....
I'm triggered every time I see things like "$663,937.02 today". I just can't help it. There should be a word for [mindlessly] reporting the results of a calculation to arbitrary precision when only one significant digit of precision is warranted. There probably is such a word in German.
Edit: Domain/OS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain/OS
I love reading this stuff! Love seeing the fiber optics stuff at the end, every era had their own buzzwords with cool pictures! The only thing I don't like is the inside of the case, it reminds me of some dell or HP systems, densely packed stuff with lots of metal brackets that's hard to work with and probably "vacuum cleaner" style fans in it too (I don't see the fans in the fotos, but I just feel it from the looks…
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I'm triggered every time I see things like "$663,937.02 today". I just can't help it. There should be a word for [mindlessly] reporting the results of a calculation to arbitrary precision when only one significant digit of precision is warranted. There probably is such a word in German.
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Even 10-15 years later, multiple CPUs and 128Mb RAM was quite uncommon. How much did this beast cost back in the 80s? Edit: Max configs were up to $250,000 ($663,937.02 today) back then according to this price list: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/apollo/Apollo_Price_List_Jul88....
I'm triggered every time I see things like "$663,937.02 today". I just can't help it. There should be a word for [mindlessly] reporting the results of a calculation to arbitrary precision when only one significant digit of precision is warranted. There probably is such a word in German.