Quoting Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, February 13, 2006 2:23 pm, Wesley Parish wrote: > > > > > The power supply's another part of the problem. For rackmounts I'm > > surprised > > they don't sell rackmounts in sets and the power supplies as separate > > entities > > supplying one or two or four or whatever ... uninterruptible, of > course. > > > > Just my 0.02c worth - runaway inflation of course! ;) > > > > Wesley Parish > > > > > That's what the telcos do... all the big stuff is available with DC > feeds.
What struck me as absurd about my entire idea in the nineties when I actually believed I had a chance at getting it up and running, if I could but get work to buy the equipment to try it out ... was the fact that nothing about it was new. I'd reinvented the mainframe by starting off with the PC and cutting out all the inefficiencies. And I never would have started thinking about computer architecture if I hadn't taken a Polytech course on Unix at the same time I was trying to learn MC6800 assembler, heard about SCSI's relative efficiencies at the same time as I learnt about Unix's everything-is-a-file efficiencies, then learning that PC graphics subsystems were all higgledy-piggledy every which way up the booai. It's a wonder anybody got anything done with them back then! ;) Learning about something called Fibre Channel was lucky - it stopped me reinventing Channel Architecture all on my ownsome. Wesley Parish > > Steve > > -- > Let us have a moment of silence for all Americans who are now stuck in > traffic on their way to a health club to ride a stationary bicycle. - > Congressman Earl Blumenauer (Oregon) > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
