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The earliest description about the hardware I can find on archive.org is:

> The main server is a Sun4/630MP-41 with (14-Feb-94) over 20GB GB archive disk space

https://web.archive.org/web/19961105014909/http://nic.funet....

I faintly remember when around the turn of the century the Irish equivalent, HEANET put in an Intel Itanic server for a similar purpose (or was it two?). I hope someone will correct me if I remember wrong but it had an absurd amount of memory, like 32GB.

ALthough it seems I remember wrong https://hyse.org/pdf/scaling-apache-handout.pdf

> a Dell 2650, with 2 2.4 Ghz Xeon processors, 12Gb of memory

but still, there was Merced there, it's just been so long ...

And software it used is here:[0]

[0] https://www.funet.fi/pub/local/src/

I wonder if 786 GB is a typo, because 256 * 3 = 768.

more than likely

I'd wager the people that are from the 386/486 era get this wrong a lot

why would you think 768G is a typo?

6x 128G = 768G

As is 12x 64G

Seems in line with servers I see routinely