Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:48:25 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Fire Engine?? |
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:11:11 -0800 Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote:
> I used to think otherwise, while I was a Sun employee, and Sun employee #1 > pointed out to me that CPUs and memory were getting faster more quickly than > the TOE type answers could come to market. He was right then and he seems > to still be right.
Maybe this was at least partially the impetus behind his recent departure from the company. And if not the impetus, a possible straw that broke the camel's back.
How fast will cpus be when Sun actually deploys this stuff?
A commodity x86 U1 box at that time will probably have 6+ GHZ cpus in it, and super-duper-DDR or whatever the current memory technology will be. Why do I need Sun's TOE crap in this box? Where's all that precious CPU I need to be saving?
This stuff isn't really useful for huge database servers either.
Where do they plan to do, put Solaris10 on iSCSI drives? ROFL! :)
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