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On 10/11/06 14:48, Chris Browne wrote:
> ajs@crankycanuck.ca (Andrew Sullivan) writes:
>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:50:44PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
[snip]
> Oh, and a cluster of IBM p570s would probably be enough to run a 20
> user system :-(. [Actually, that's probably not *entirely* fair; I
> once administered an R/3 system supporting ~30 users on a uniprocessor
> DEC Alpha with 256MB of RAM, which by modern standards is pretty
> pedestrian...]
<GEEZER>
My first programming job was walloping COBOL on a 1.9 MIPS IBM 43xx
with only 6MB RAM. Supported *70* online users and had a
*relational* database (CA Datacom-DB).
Of course, the FEPs, block-mode terminals and CICS were the crucial
difference.
Damned shame that Unix killed that mentality, and that client-server
was usually implemented so poorly.
</GEEZER>
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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