Yeah, remember the person in the article is talking about an Amiga render farm in someone's apartment with cables running all over, even through his pet rabbits cages! Where render failures were when one of the rabbits would bit through one of the cables.
Not if the Amiga render farm was setup in a professional looking studio or studio room, it might not have looked so "primitive". I think the statement has as much to do with the setting the render farm was in as the technology that ran it. Not to mention the guy probably worked really cheap.
