SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing (Was: RE: PeeCee turn s 20) [longish]

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Tue Aug 14 13:45:14 2001

> And I'll bet you they could do it cheaper with a single IBM mainframe than
> thousands of PCs. The power savings alone would be tremendous. A 9672 G7
> xSeries can run hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Linux images in
> LPARs or under VM, all at speeds comparable to quick PCs.

Sadly, and many years after I left the local public school corp that
brought me together with my first Prime, they replaced a power-hungry
Prime 9950 with a *much* (read: no more dedicated transformer outside)
less hungry model 4450.

Which, I understand, they kept for two years before succumbing to the
PeeCee disease.... oh sh*t, new lyrics for Dire Straights' Industrial
Disease are coming to mind ***ClassicCmp SONG LYRIC FILTER INVOKED***
Received on Tue Aug 14 2001 - 13:45:14 BST