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by animal-hash 1222 days ago
"The Sun-1 workstation used a Motorola 68000 CPU at 10MHz. This was paired with an in-house designed MMU. It had 256K zero wait state memory with parity, and 32K EPROM memory."

I like how these specs are described as if it was a computer in a Fast and Furious action flic

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Now my brain is reading that line in a Vin Diesel voice, and it seems to fit.
Now imagine it using the tone of voice Pyle used in Full Metal Jacket right before the unpleasantness in the washroom.
I think if a lot of computer enthusiasts had been born say 70 years earlier than they were, they would've been gearheads--auto enthusiasts--instead.