On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 01:04:23AM +0100, Peter Svensson wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > 32-64GB is out of the intel arena altogether. You are firmly in mainframe
> > land unless clustering stuff would work. Go set Sun, IBM and SGI bidding
> > against each other and get some third party disk quotes 8)
>
> How about alphas? The bigger machines do pack a punch. I don't know
> whether linux supports the bigger ones though.
In general the system architecture (SMP, clustering etc.) makes the bigger
difference than the CPU architecture.
Ralf
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