Yes, Alpha/AXP systems scale up to very high end computing. They even look like computers from the old days when men were men and computers were computers (e.g., look at http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/gs1280)! There are some very large banks running on Alpha/AXP, and there are parts of the world where if you surveyed everyone at the village pub on a Saturday night, a decent percentage of them would have their monies at the tender mercies of a GT.M database.
-- Bhaskar On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 14:13 -0500, Nancy Anthracite wrote: > Pardon my ignorance, but an Alpha/AXP is one of those servers for a > really > big operation, like a large hospital, correct? If so, this is > WONDERFUL! > > Thank you even if it isn't what I think it is. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
