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What the VAX Generation Got Right (and Why It Stopped Being True)

12 July 20267 July 2026 by Pete Blakemore

‎An idle CPU was once a sin. Now a bored home server is the point. Lessons from the VAX and DEC days on thrift, utilisation, and what “efficient” really means.

Categories Random Thoughts, Tech & Servers Tags computing-history, DEC, EngineeringCulture, homelab, lessonslearned, retrocomputing, self-hosting, sysadmin, VAX Leave a comment
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