[rescue] Perverse Question

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Jun 19 16:52:51 CDT 2003


On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 03:57 PM, Andrew Weiss wrote:
>>>    I know zero about Stratus machines...but the last Tandem system I 
>>> saw
>>> in a financial institution's computer room consisted of HUNDREDS of
>>> racks.  I'd call that a mainframe. ;)
>>
>> Heh, we have a beowulf system with tens of racks... stuffed with 
>> toasty
>> pentiums... does that make it a mainframe :-)....
>>
>> *runs as fast as possible to get away from Dave's wrath*
>>
> No that makes it a painframe

   Nicely put. :)

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Dave McGuire             "I've grown hair again, just
St. Petersburg, FL           for the occasion."       -Doc Shipley



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