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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I like how posting got fairly fast. Then we started putting absurd amounts of ram into servers so now they're back to slow.

Like we have a high clock speed dual 32 core AMD server with 1TB of ram that takes at least 5 minutes to do it's RAM check. So every time you need to reboot you're just sitting there twiddling your thumbs waiting anxiously.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I will date myself. These machines had a lot of memory as well which added to the slow reboot. I think it was 16 gigs.

The r series for IBM took forever. The p series was faster but was still slow

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll date myself. My first PC had 500MB of STORAGE

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My first pc had a tape drive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I had a friend with one of those while I had an Atari. The Atari game would come up within a minute, but the tape took like 15 min to start.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Using a tape drive is crazy when you think about it. It was slow…. This wasn’t the big tape cartridges. It was a standard Audio tape. Not sure why they could store but it was all sequential

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Never ask an engineer why lol

Source: am engineer

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago

Meant that as what about they could store.

Why I know. Go play it and you’ll see how they did it.

I am curious who said. You know am audio take will create a great experience.