Comment by vidarh
17 hours ago
Most younger devs just have no concept on how limited hardware we ran services on...
I used to run a webmail system with 2m accounts on hardware with less total capacity (ram, disk, CPU throughput) than my laptop...
What's more: It was a CGI (so new process for every request), and the storage backend spawned separate processes per user.
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