Re: RFC - Survey (not sales!)
Posted in 2000
I'm going to go into the corner now and cry gently... then I'm going to beat my head against the wall.. Then I'm getting a passport and a work permit. brett "Art S. Kagel" wrote: > > 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/ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett's 10th law of UNIX administration... rm is forever ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Geer - UNIX Admin/Analyst/Programmer - Intratex Holdings. Tel. +27 31 717 4000 Direct. +27 31 717 4146 Fax. +27 31 717 4001 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The little voices are talking to me again, telling me to reach for a keyboard and type rm -rf /* last week they had me rm -rf `echo $MANPATH | sed 's/:/ /g'` now I fear I have no answers -----------------------------------------------------------------