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"...AltaVista was essentially a test case for one of Digital’s supercomputers, the AlphaServer 8400 TurboLaser."

I loved the seeming technical excesses of Digital so much. Nothing they did seemed as calm and staid as Cray, Sun or even SGI.

Think about that name - Alpha Server 8400 Turbo Laser




That could be Apple’s next naming scheme: iPhone XR Max Turbo Laser


The "8400" part almost seems arbitrary to the rest of the name


Everyone still names their crap like this. "Dell Optiplex 7010" or "Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 GTI RTX ETC ETC" gives me absolutely zero information about the product other than what to google.


That is just fantastic.




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