Subject: Re: Scaling noise
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: davidsen@tmr.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Mer, 2003-09-10 at 11:01, John Bradford wrote
> Of course, you would be right if we were talking about current
> microcomputer architectures.  I was talking about the possibility of
> current mainframe technologies being implemented in future
> microcomputer architectures.

1U fits 4 lower powered PC systems. 

> Today, it is perfectly acceptable, normal, and commonplace to run hot
> spares of various images on a single Z/Series box.  

> The hardware is fault tollerant by design.  Only extreme events like a
> fire or flood at the datacentre 

Or a bunch of suspicious looking people claiming to be from EDS and 
helping themselves to your mainframe (See .AU customs 8))

The virtue of S/390 is more IMHO that it wont make mistakes. The
distributed PC solution is more likely to be available.

Which matters sometimes depends whether you are running websites or 
a bank

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