Douglas Quebbeman said:
> > > I dispute that: Computers and computing go from strength to strength.
> > > There's more than just PCs out there; the mighty mainframe still rules the
> > > roost in many places, there's Apple Macs, VAX minis, Crays, and probably
> > > many others I can't even think of. And, for the soldering-iron fans,
> > > embedded computing is probably stronger than it ever was - *everything's*
> > > got a computer or three in it...
> >
> > In many places? The mainframe rules the roost period. What do you think
> > serves the databases that run the neato little things your PCs do on the
> > internet? IBM DB2/390.
>
> Hmmm... probably true for the commercial sites, of which I spend
> virtually zero of my personal time. Unless Google uses the OBM iron...
Nope, they use commodity PCs with FreeBSD. From
http://www.google.com/technology/:
"The speed you experience can be attributed in part to the efficiency of our
search algorithm and partly to the thousands of low cost PC's we've networked
together to create a superfast search engine."
- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(
http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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Received on Tue Aug 14 2001 - 09:41:56 BST