Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: linux as a minicomputer ? | Date | Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:56:15 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> "Benefits all around?" Such a machine would be slower and more > expensive than four single processor boxes, so what's the point?
A lot more manageable and for many setups a lot of terminals in one box actually makes a lot of sense
> 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.
The hardware is now massmarket - otherwise I'd agree wholeheartedly. Video cards are cheap, USB2.0 cards have 4 root bridges per card. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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