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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!gerg From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Message-ID: <gergE797Hp.2H1@netcom.com> Organization: Carpe Queso -- Seize the Cheese! References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <3327BBF9.784A@earthlink.net> <5g9jad$bo3@flea.best.net> <5glbkq$io6$3@kayrad.ziplink.net> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 19:29:49 GMT Lines: 25 Sender: gerg@netcom23.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.sco.misc:36892 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37378 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6388 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29280 mi@ALDAN.ziplink.net..remove-after-`net' writes: >Honorable Matt Dillon > wrote on 13 Mar (in article <5g9jad$bo3@flea.best.net>): > >= I can only think of a few companies that would actually need >= more I/O bandwidth then a standard PCI bus gives you. > > My ISP (Ziplink.net) is changing their news and mail servers > from Intel (PPros?) with FreeBSD to DEC Alpha with Digital > Unix, because they think they maxed out Intel configuration... > It's easy to admit you've exceeded the capacity of a particular hardware platform. It's much, much harder to admit you've exceeded the capacity of a particular mindset. A group of bigger machines doesn't require cleverness to make them as scalable as a group of smaller ones - just more money. -Greg -- ::::::::::::::::::: Greg Andrews gerg@netcom.com ::::::::::::::::::: "Blat frig, noodle, freen popping in the gletax to grot your turlingdrome now comes the amazing word warp." -- zoinks@netcom.com :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::