ASM370 - Four Yorkshiremen and 64 gig memory

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Four Yorkshiremen and 64 gig memory

J de Boyne Pollard

2007-09-06, 6:58 pm

SOHS> Hmm well there are a lot of PCs that do more work
SOHS> than mainframes used to - they are usually rack
SOHS> mounted and don't run GUIs of course.

One of the more publicly documented examples being the servers that
publish Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote, and
Wikisource to the world: <URL:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Wikimedia_servers>

SOHS> Those PCs that do a lot of work for many users usually
SOHS> have the users running a web browser as the terminal
SOHS> and very often a *lot* of users.

I repeat the example. (-:

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