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why did 70/80/90 only have 1 cpu if cpus where so slow?

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mendip_discovery:
Iirc we had also just gone from mainframe PCs where you worked at a terminal to a place where you could each have a pc on your desk and there was a boom in sales from 95 onwards that meant the processors were getting faster and cheaper and we were mostly happy with the speed.

Gyro:

--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on March 30, 2023, 09:48:14 am ---Iirc we had also just gone from mainframe PCs...

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An interesting concept! ;D

The closest I got was a small PDP11 on a table, but that counted as a minicomputer.

madires:
Sun SPARCstation 10 (also 20): up to 4 CPUs

mendip_discovery:

--- Quote from: Gyro on March 30, 2023, 06:29:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on March 30, 2023, 09:48:14 am ---Iirc we had also just gone from mainframe PCs...

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An interesting concept! ;D

The closest I got was a small PDP11 on a table, but that counted as a minicomputer.

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I find it interesting we had cloud computing before it was called cloud computing. Then we all got machines at work and at home. Now we are going back to the cloud.

I started in computers when I was a kid with a BBC Electron, then a 64, Amiga 600 and then a 486...I am almost 40 so not as old. But I know types that do the whole 4 Yorkshiremen sketch when talking about computers. "You were lucky to have punch cards, we had to move valves and relays" "pah valves, young whipper snapper when I was a lad..."

Gyro:
I am one of those Yorkshiremen, in both senses. I started out on an ICL1902... with punched cards!

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