Subj : Re: Weird Sun Pricing
To   : tenser
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Feb 11 2024 08:54:00

-=> tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 te> Yup.  Google ran into that exact same thing, and realized
 te> that for the price of a big machine from Sun, DEC or SGI,
 te> they could buy an enormous number of cheap x86 machines
 te> and scale horizontally.

 That reminds me - I have a audiobook version of "Into the Plex", by
 Steven Levy. It documents the early days at Google, and I think touches
 on some of that. It's about time for a re-listen.




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