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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$3@kayrad.ziplink.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 19:29:49 GMT
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mi@ALDAN.ziplink.net..remove-after-`net' writes:
>Honorable Matt Dillon
>      wrote on 13 Mar (in article <5g9jad$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
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	 turlingdrome now comes the amazing word warp."
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