[geeks] value of PIII PC servers

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 @ 21:56 -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke said:

> If I had to buy a computer with 16GB of memory to serve up web pages, I
> think the last thing I'd do is brag about that fact.  There is something
> dreadfully wrong with that concept.

Yeah, but it happens.

In 1996 I worked at a company where some bloated crud written in Python
serviced up real estate data for users.  The software read databases of
listings and images, and displayed them.  It was horrible, written by
"Digital Creations", who later went on to start Zope.  Anyway, we had
to upgrade a DEC system with 11GB of RAM to make the program run long
enough to be usable.

I repeat: this was around 1996-1997.

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