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To: antiRepublicrat
You're not a fan because of -- apparently zero Apple experience. That is a common occurrence.

Absolutely. There's just no possible way I could have any experience with a software arrangement that locks you into a hardware vendor and that turning out to have been a bad decision.

No PlayStations have ever hit the list.

Researchers create a PlayStation 2-based supercomputer

Yet I don't see you railing against Sun servers or IBM mainframes or minis.

The thread's not about them, and the last I heard, Hitachi had broken IBM's hardware lockin.

305 posted on 04/16/2008 6:41:03 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
There's just no possible way I could have any experience with a software arrangement that locks you into a hardware vendor and that turning out to have been a bad decision.

Then so much for those mainframes.

Researchers create a PlayStation 2-based supercomputer

Did you bother to read the article? You earlier, "some university research project that built one of the ten largest supercomputers in the world out of a bunch of PS2's..." You're article, "they aren't powerful enough to be among the world's 500 fastest supercomputers."

You're at least 490 positions off.

The thread's not about them

You turned it into a hardware lock-in issue, you have to explain your lack of disdain for Sun, IBM, and let's throw in Hitachi and HP while we're at it.

306 posted on 04/16/2008 8:43:31 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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