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vitally3643today at 3:15 AM1 replyview on HN

We didn't have GPUs with hundreds of gigabytes of VRAM and tensor processing cores.


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walrus01today at 3:30 AM

Or a feasible/economical way to attempt to store the sum total of human written output, multi-petabytes of data (outside of the resources of the NSA, maybe), when a server with 6 x 36GB 10K RPM SCSI HDD in RAID-5 was high end, and its network uplink would be at most two ports of 1 gigabit ethernet.