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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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.

	-hpa
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