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IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoAn entire state government could fit it your cellphone. That’s never been one of the use cases for data center level compute.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 months ago
An entire state government could run on your phone but requires an entire data center because it’s written in JavaScript that emulates the original COBOL code that ran the government in the 1960’s.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“State services” is database lookups and billing. Back in the 90’s, I supported 10k users (1.5k active at any moment) on a Pentium 3 with 512MB of Ram.