[rescue] A Question about Snap Servers

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sat, 31 Jul 2004 @ 09:13 -0700, Sheldon T. Hall said:

> Well, yeah, but you're comparing current technology with 12-year-old
> technology.  There aren't too many computing arenas in which the 12-year-old
> technology is going to win out; MIPS/Watt certainly isn't going to be one.
> MIPS/retail$ is another.

Also, how many 12-year old PCs are in active use?

A *lot* of old Sun's and other UNIX machines are still used.

For that matter, there are a lot of old Apple machines in use.

PCs don't tend to last that long though.

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