[rescue] Sun Blackbox?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 @ 11:15 -0500, Dave K said:

> On 11/12/06, wa2egp at att.net <wa2egp at att.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: "Sheldon T. Hall" <shel at tandem.artell.net>
> > > http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/story.jsp
> 
> > When I first looked at it, I thought I was reading an
> > "April Fools" story, but as I continued  reading, it
> > made more and more sense.
> 
> For decades the Telephone Companies and manufacturers have had Central
> Office switches installed on trailers ready for deployment in disaster
> situations.  I know companies like SunGard have Computers in trailers
> already, so this is a very logical extension.
> 
> I'm imaging a new cross between a Co-Lo facility and a Trailer Park to
> house these things for people short on real estate ;)

So when IBM comes along and offers a 32-CPU 128-bit processor trailer,
they can call it the "double wide".



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