-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/11/06 14:48, Chris Browne wrote: > ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew Sullivan) writes: >> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:50:44PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: [snip] > Oh, and a cluster of IBM p570s would probably be enough to run a 20 > user system :-(. [Actually, that's probably not *entirely* fair; I > once administered an R/3 system supporting ~30 users on a uniprocessor > DEC Alpha with 256MB of RAM, which by modern standards is pretty > pedestrian...] <GEEZER> My first programming job was walloping COBOL on a 1.9 MIPS IBM 43xx with only 6MB RAM. Supported *70* online users and had a *relational* database (CA Datacom-DB). Of course, the FEPs, block-mode terminals and CICS were the crucial difference. Damned shame that Unix killed that mentality, and that client-server was usually implemented so poorly. </GEEZER> - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFLX6wS9HxQb37XmcRAopdAJ9kFEeHx0KXEFhhGGq+REuiYRh7GgCgnxR9 Urj+S/Ce0+b9KrqP4gPVyeM= =wWG0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
