Depends on the box, but some years ago, I picked up an old slotted-Xeon server at a swap for a few bucks, and it had 32 DIMM slots on an enormous memory sub-board. Took registered or buffered ECC, as I recall. I scored a few modules on eBay and put 256MB into it, I think it would've gone to 4GB if I filled all the slots.
But the hard drives were SCSI SCA-2, which I believe maxed out at 40MB/s but in practice the drives were much slower. So yes, there was probably a point in time where a reasonably-beefy box would have had the specs you describe.
But the hard drives were SCSI SCA-2, which I believe maxed out at 40MB/s but in practice the drives were much slower. So yes, there was probably a point in time where a reasonably-beefy box would have had the specs you describe.