Re: RFC - Survey (not sales!)
In article <3a40aa73.11758998@News.CIS.DFN.DE>, obnoxio@hotmail.com (Obnoxio The Clown) wrote: > In the year of Our Lord Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:08:05 +0200, Brett Geer > <brett@brabys.co.za> broke a vow of silence to utter: > > > > >> I only run NT on my laptop, and I'm signed up to a campaign in the company > >> to allow field staff to run Linux and VMWare. > >> > >> 10 is really S80/V-class/E10K/O2000 territory. I'd rate this place about a > >> 7. > > > >I think we'll add another level (11) ... showoff level. > > > >We've seen the people here with > 8 processors, more gb of ram than > >the rest of us have disk space. Disk cache hardware with more ram on it > >than my machine has for the system. > > My last site was: > > 1x Sun E6500, 12 CPUs, 4GB RAM (HDR primary and transaction server) > 1x Sun E4500, 10 CPUs, 4GB RAM (HDR secondary and query only server) > 26x Compaq NT, 4 CPUs, 4GB RAM (web servers) > > Also about 3 E4500's as dev and test boxes, plus more 450's than you can shake a > stick at. > > I'd definitely rate them an 11. :-) > > So where would Linux on a Cyrix 333 with 7.30 UC? 32 MB of RAM put me? 1 4 GB hard drive Will Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Or me with my 32-CPU Pentium III 450 MHZ DG Aviion boxes and 32-CPU Sun E10000's (8 of the latter and 16 of the former)? Art S. Kagel William Rice wrote: > > In article <3a40aa73.11758998@News.CIS.DFN.DE>, > obnoxio@hotmail.com (Obnoxio The Clown) wrote: > > In the year of Our Lord Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:08:05 +0200, Brett Geer > > <brett@brabys.co.za> broke a vow of silence to utter: > > > > > > > >> I only run NT on my laptop, and I'm signed up to a campaign in the > company > > >> to allow field staff to run Linux and VMWare. > > >> > > >> 10 is really S80/V-class/E10K/O2000 territory. I'd rate this place > about a > > >> 7. > > > > > >I think we'll add another level (11) ... showoff level. > > > > > >We've seen the people here with > 8 processors, more gb of ram than > > >the rest of us have disk space. Disk cache hardware with more ram on > it > > >than my machine has for the system. > > > > My last site was: > > > > 1x Sun E6500, 12 CPUs, 4GB RAM (HDR primary and transaction server) > > 1x Sun E4500, 10 CPUs, 4GB RAM (HDR secondary and query only server) > > 26x Compaq NT, 4 CPUs, 4GB RAM (web servers) > > > > Also about 3 E4500's as dev and test boxes, plus more 450's than you > can shake a > > stick at. > > > > I'd definitely rate them an 11. :-) > > > > > > So where would Linux on a Cyrix 333 with 7.30 UC? 32 MB of RAM put me? > 1 4 GB hard drive > > Will > > Sent via Deja.com > http://www.deja.com/
In article <3A4142D2.4BB045B7@bloomberg.net>, Art S. Kagel <kagel@bloomberg.net> writes >Or me with my 32-CPU Pentium III 450 MHZ DG Aviion boxes and >32-CPU Sun E10000's (8 of the latter and 16 of the former)? > Well we have single CPU E450's! One customer has a single CPU 33Mhz box with 64Mb of RAM! >Art S. Kagel > >> >> So where would Linux on a Cyrix 333 with 7.30 UC? 32 MB of RAM put me? >> 1 4 GB hard drive >> Well, my home network is:- 3 machines with 256Mb of RAM each and a total of 147 Gb of disk space! > >> Will >> >> Sent via Deja.com >> http://www.deja.com/ -- David Williams
In the year of Our Lord Wed, 20 Dec 2000 18:37:54 -0500, "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> broke a vow of silence to utter: >Or me with my 32-CPU Pentium III 450 MHZ DG Aviion boxes and >32-CPU Sun E10000's (8 of the latter and 16 of the former)? Yes. *That's* an integer overflow. :-) >William Rice wrote: >> >> In article <3a40aa73.11758998@News.CIS.DFN.DE>, >> obnoxio@hotmail.com (Obnoxio The Clown) wrote: >> > In the year of Our Lord Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:08:05 +0200, Brett Geer >> > <brett@brabys.co.za> broke a vow of silence to utter: >> > >> > > >> > >> I only run NT on my laptop, and I'm signed up to a campaign in the >> company >> > >> to allow field staff to run Linux and VMWare. >> > >> >> > >> 10 is really S80/V-class/E10K/O2000 territory. I'd rate this place >> about a >> > >> 7. >> > > >> > >I think we'll add another level (11) ... showoff level. >> > > >> > >We've seen the people here with > 8 processors, more gb of ram than >> > >the rest of us have disk space. Disk cache hardware with more ram on >> it >> > >than my machine has for the system. >> > >> > My last site was: >> > >> > 1x Sun E6500, 12 CPUs, 4GB RAM (HDR primary and transaction server) >> > 1x Sun E4500, 10 CPUs, 4GB RAM (HDR secondary and query only server) >> > 26x Compaq NT, 4 CPUs, 4GB RAM (web servers) >> > >> > Also about 3 E4500's as dev and test boxes, plus more 450's than you >> can shake a >> > stick at. >> > >> > I'd definitely rate them an 11. :-) >> > >> > >> >> So where would Linux on a Cyrix 333 with 7.30 UC? 32 MB of RAM put me? >> 1 4 GB hard drive >> >> Will >> >> Sent via Deja.com >> http://www.deja.com/
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