Subj : Re: X86S
To   : tenser
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Apr 25 2024 06:56:00

-=> tenser wrote to Spectre <=-

 te> That was kind of what the OEMs all wanted, which meant that
 te> the desktop market and low-end servers all went x86_64, and
 te> Itanium was relegated to the high-end, where it only had
 te> marginal market penetration.  Eventually, x86_64 took over
 te> there, too (at least by volume), in part thanks to the
 te> hyperscalars paving the way for large-scale x86 deployment
 te> in server environments.

It seems lots of people underestimated the power of lots of cheap Intel
boxes. Central Computers in San Francisco was my idea of an auto-scaling
group - traffic increases on the web site? I could call them and get a
server built in 24 hours. They were 4 blocks away.

The year before we'd been running Sun for both the database and front-end
of a web site using some Netscap web server - the following year the
front-end was all cheap white boxes running Apache on Linux.





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