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Foil 6 A Brief History of Scientific Computing

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
Late 1970's and early 1980's
Departmental Systems - VAX's come into use - Time Shared Resources - Relatively high initial capital and maintenance costs - Skilled system administrator
Early 1980's to Mid 1980's
Unix workstations became available - and affordable - Limited CPU, memory and disk resources - Skilled system administrator

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