Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: linux as a minicomputer ? | Date | 11 Apr 2002 12:45:46 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20020411154601.GY17962@antefacto.com> By author: "John P. Looney" <john@antefacto.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Many many moons ago, the GGI project promised us the ability to buy a > four-processor box, four PCI video cards, four USB mice & keyboards, and > let four people use that machine at once, with benefits all around. >
"Benefits all around?" Such a machine would be slower and more expensive than four single processor boxes, so what's the point?
This is fundamentally the problem with these kinds of schemes -- they get outcompeted on price and availability by the massmarket items. This is part of the very attraction of Linux -- it's running Unix on stock, cheap, hardware.
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