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Article #12407Re: How many PC's make an Amdahl mainframe
From: Paul Rubin
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:56
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:56
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In article <1993Jan28.222537.15330@chpc.utexas.edu> apas611@chpc.utexas.edu (David Boles) writes: It is Friday afternoon, 5:30 pm Central time and your system jocks notice a problem on your central system. This system _is_ your business (10Billion a year, lets say) and you can tolerate essentially _no_ downtime. Your sys jocks isolate the problem to a particular process, but don't know whether resetting will solve the problem. You call the company and they [go to great lengths to fix the problem] Suppose you have PC's: you call Microsoft (not even toll-free) and get told that the next upgrade might fix that... You have workstations: you call your Sun support group etc... You have PC's or workstations but run a system that you have source code for, like GNU or BSDI: Your system jocks fix the problem without needing to depend on the mercy of some vendor!
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nntp.telebit.com!phr From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) Subject: Re: How many PC's make an Amdahl mainframe In-Reply-To: apas611@chpc.utexas.edu's message of Thu, 28 Jan 93 22:25:37 GMT Message-ID: <PHR.93Jan28195629@napa.telebit.com> Sender: news@telebit.com Nntp-Posting-Host: napa Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA References: <1993Jan26.225943.21955@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com> <1993@niktow.canisius.edu> <128R02pn34lx01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1993Jan28.222537.15330@chpc.utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:56:29 GMT Lines: 24