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by mprovost
1628 days ago
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Encryption is CPU-heavy and CPUs weren't nearly as fast then as they are now. Unix was developed on systems like a VAX which could do 1 MIPS (millions of instructions per second). For comparison an M1 chip can do about 10 trillion instructions per second. It just wasn't possible to encrypt data in real time like it is now. |
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