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Re: HOw many PC's make an Amdahl mainframe

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From: Chris Dollin
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:52
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In article ... gints@prophet.esd.sgi.com (Gints Klimanis) writes:

   Well, we need some room to get to the machines, so we can
   change the 750 floppies during backups. Let's make the 
   room 3x the length, so we have long rows of stacked PC's
   with 4' aisles. Now the room is:

    20' wide, 60' long, and 7' high.

   The question is, are there any rooms this large in the
   world? 

The HP open-plan office I am in at the moment is about 14' high and 
about 90' x 180' (this is just the Labs half), assuming that I can manage 
3' a stride and that my estimation by eye that the building is twice as 
long as wide is in bounds. A safety-factor of 27 seems acceptable.

Just strip out the cubicle walls. We've even got power and LAN laid on under
the floor-tiles ...
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From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:52:46 GMT
Subject: Re: HOw many PC's make an Amdahl mainframe
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