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rasz 29 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Silicon Valley Tea Party a.k.a. the great 1998 Lin...

>I had a 1ghz machine with a gig of RAM in 95

No you didnt. Process node enabling 1GHz wasnt even invented yet. Afaik fastest CPU at the time was Alpha released in December at 333MHz.

1GB of ram cost $32K in 1995, $2400 in 1997, $1200 in 1998, and back to $2400 in September 1999 due to Jiji earthquake. Just for some perspective 4th place on TOP500 in 1995 had 8GB of ram.

tralarpa 29 days ago [–]

> Afaik fastest CPU at the time was Alpha released in December at 333MHz

That would be rather 1996. Alphas were already at 500MHz in 1997, and (expensive) Pentium II were at 450MHz in 1998.

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