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		lokar 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the Sun Enterprise 10000 was born (2007) A lot of the examples here are things like running a large email service. Doing that with this kind of hardware makes no sense.

Henchman21 11 months ago [–]

It might make no sense today, but it made loads of sense back then. One cannot apply modern circumstances backwards in time.

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