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notabitail said:
How bad were they in terms of ease of use compared to today's server hardware?
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They were mini mainframes. Ease of use was not part of the equation at that time, but they were the cutting edge of high-end computing. You scheduled time on them and they were a shared resource between multiple programmers or even departments. At that point (mid-late 90's) they were on their way out as newer generations of DEC and other competitors (like Sun and IBM) were smaller, faster, and easier to deploy. We replaced ours in '99 with a lab full of ultra5's workstations and an 420R as the server for the college of engineering's unix lab. Desktops were Some nonsense HP desktops with prolly P90's running NT4/Novell for all the classroom labs and fac/staff machines (the IT manager was a Novell fanboy. He sucked and eventually got canned). Admins had Beefier PC desktops and Ultra10's for unix stuff, and I had a Redhat 4.2 linux box set up in the lab aid office that we used for usenet, irc, and a few other things. logic board in a TV remote probably has more processing power these days than a vax cabinet did, but at the time they were amazing.
 

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