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Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux by kazen44 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @07:32AM (#25699833)
Heck,

old colleagues of mine have been doing "dedicated/shared hosting" for the better part of nearly 25 years.

virtual private servers have existed for 20 decades+.

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Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux by vasco on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:45AM (#25700272)
I think 20 decades might be a bit of an exaggeration.
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Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux by breck on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:37AM (#25700687)
No I actually remember reading a letter Lovelace wrote to Babbage about problems with chroot
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Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux by Misteur-Z on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:12AM (#25700929)
IBM mainframes virtual machines saying hello => "It is directly based on technology and concepts dating back to the 1960s" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/VM
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Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux by krallja on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:29AM (#25701095)
20 decades ago would be 1821 A.D., four decades before the First American Civil War.
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Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux by kazen44 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:59AM (#25702012)
ofcourse you are right,

i meant 2 decades :)

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Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux by throwaway20148 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:15AM (#25700955)
That’s what the CIA would have you believe.
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