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A high-end workstation 1990, 2000 and now
(Based on 1st figure: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/)
A high-end workstation then, sometime ago and now
1990 2000 2013
Hardware
33 MHz Mips R 3000 600 MHz Alpha or Pentium III Intel Core i7 3.5 GHz 4 cores or AMD FX-9590 4,7Ghz 8 cores
32 megabytes of RAM 512 megabytes of RAM 16 GB RAM
10 Mbps Ethernet 100 Mbps Ethernet ???
Software
Unix Unix Unix
X X X
Emacs Emacs Emacs
TCP/IP TCP/IP TCP/IP
Netscape Firefox/Chrome
Languages
C C C
C++ C++ C++
Java Java
Perl (a little) Ruby
Python
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