Honestly, I didn't know anyone who used Linux until 1998. By then, the Pentium Pro was already out of date, Pentium II Xeons were the new x86 hotness, and all of the overclockers were building systems with Celeron 300A's overclocked to 450+ MHz.
Or Linux. I had two SMP PPro boxes at work. Parallelization with LAM/MPI back then.
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When I think back, I recall a physics student babbling about something that I failed to grasp. Next, a year or two later, I saw three Linux servers in production use within academic institute. That was Spring 1994. IMHO it must have been rather daring, yet understandable, to adopt such new and unknown creation.Honestly, I didn't know anyone who used Linux until 1998. By then, the Pentium Pro was already out of date, Pentium II Xeons were the new x86 hotness, and all of the overclockers were building systems with Celeron 300A's overclocked to 450+ MHz.
Honestly, I didn't know anyone who used Linux until 1998. By then, the Pentium Pro was already out of date, Pentium II Xeons were the new x86 hotness, and all of the overclockers were building systems with Celeron 300A's overclocked to 450+ MHz.
When I think back, I recall a physics student babbling about something that I failed to grasp. Next, a year or two later, I saw three Linux servers in production use within academic institute. That was Spring 1994. IMHO it must have been rather daring, yet understandable, to adopt such new and unknown creation.
Yes I do remember those.
As recently as the early 90s I remember houses (that's place of musical performances not where people live hehe) that were using S-100 based computers to control lighting! Those had 64K - yes K not M! - RAM and a Z-80 CPU at 4.77MHz. Dual 8" floppies booting up CP/M. The computer was made by a company called California Computer Systems back in the 70s when these kids named Jobs and Woz were fulling around with fruit in their garage! :biggrin:
8" floppies... 2400 baud Hayes modems... Then, later, the miracle of an actual amber screen. Oh. Oh, and CGA!
Ethernet schmethernet... I remember when I helped set up a network that ran 90 Baud over a twisted-pair from a bedroom to a garage, terminated by a 1 MHz Z-80 on one end and a dumb Wyse terminal on the other. So we could look up Dungeons and Dragons scenarios.
The first computer I used was a 1977 Commodore PET 2001 with a chicklet keyboard and integrated tape drive & monitor - It had 4KB RAM - IIRC I was 7 years old, so the computer was 6. My Grandma bought me my first home computer for Christmas when I was 8, which was a Commodore 64. I was so enamored with Commodore that she bought me stock, which I has until they went under in 1990. My grandma died in 1990, when I was 14, and I inherited her loaded Tandy 1000 XT compatible, which went alongside my Amiga-2000 and Commodore 128. It took a very long time for me to accept that Commodore wasn't coming back, but with what I use now, wouldn't anyway.
It did, however, take until around 1995 for PCs to catch-up.
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Also, FYI, Commodore went under in 1994, not 1990 (Amiga 1200 and 4000 were released late in 92).
Would've been nice if Intel turned the ones with defective cache into Celeron Pro's.The expense was mostly due to the fact that the separate dies could not be tested prior to assembly with one another. A single defect in just the cache or CPU would render the whole thing worthless. It was even worse with the 1MB versions and the three dies.
Ours did not have a modem but used an RS 432 interface and was linked to a T1 for communications. Back then the web was really business anyhow.
Modems were commonly outside the box in the form of couplers. You would take the phone off the hook and place it in the coupler. Speed was around 150bps. A good typist could keep ahead of it! :biggrin:
Would've been nice if Intel turned the ones with defective cache into Celeron Pro's.