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by daniel_solano 5403 days ago
> Java was designed to run on $1000 SCSI hard-drives and 32Gb of RAM.

This is plain wrong. Java was originally developed as a language for embedded devices, not servers. Later, it was targeted for the web (remember applets?).

These days Java may be best known for being "enterprise", but that is hardly its origin.