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		pureagave 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We bought the whole GPU, so we're damn well going ... Even better was the BeBox running BeOS. That was a cool use of a fast dual CPU PowerPC platform with great graphics. Amiga vibes. But turns out that humans need software applications more than they need efficient use of the hardware.

bombcar 3 months ago [–]

It was the story with so many things "back then" - even Itanium was a beast on custom-coded perfect applications.

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