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The P3 era was really a golden age. Clock speeds were still rapidly doubling, you could get SMP but most people didn't so everything had to optimize single-threaded perf, and likewise "normal" memory spanned 32MB to 512MB so you could really keep multiple programs' full working sets ready at once.


I would've said P4 era with hyperthreading opening the door to multi-core programming paradigms. Clock speeds mostly capped around 5ghz since that era


I’d rather call that the Athlon era. P4’s ran like (literal) hot garbage, Athlon’s absolutely crushed them.


If we're going back to that time period... Alpha.

How I coveted my roommate's machine that had one in it.


Athlon was amazing.




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