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To: Red Badger
YowZUH! This GUI stuff was only a passing fad.

This could be series, though - the Mountain Dew and delivery pizza industry is gonna take it in the shorts...

3 posted on 01/26/2006 9:11:05 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

I remember an old electronic engineer at a former company I worked for saying,"This surface mount stuff is just an industry fad. Once they find out it's unreliable they'll come back to good ol' thru-hole technology!"........circa 1988.......


16 posted on 01/26/2006 9:20:26 AM PST by Red Badger (LUKE 22:36 JESUS: "........and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one."........)
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To: Billthedrill
off of five megaservers running HP-UX to a cluster of low-cost Linux servers.

Neverlike HP-UX anyway. But I do worry about these businesses always going to clusters instead of mainframes. They do it so often it makes me wonder if it's a fad thing or if there is always solid logic.

Sometimes you do just need big iron. What was it Seymour Cray said, "If you're going to plow a field, do you want two big oxen or 1024 chickens?"

OTOH, Linux does run on big iron.

46 posted on 01/26/2006 1:31:24 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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