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		pureagave 52 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We bought the whole GPU, so we're damn well going ... Even better was the BeBox running BeOS. That was a cool use of a fast dual CPU PowerPC platform with great graphics. Amiga vibes. But turns out that humans need software applications more than they need efficient use of the hardware.

bombcar 52 days ago [–]

It was the story with so many things "back then" - even Itanium was a beast on custom-coded perfect applications.

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