On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 09:57:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/08/08 18:59, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:38:39PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > >>Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >
> >What about if you don't stick with i386/amd64? I know, there are fewer > >and fewer (e.g. VAX, Alpha, etc). Do, e.g. HP-9000s have a longer > >design life? What about IBM SystemP (formally RS/6000) which is > >PowerPC-based? > > POWER != PowerPC > > > Sun's Sparc64? > > *CPU architecture* is *totally orthogonal* to the quality of the > motherboard. Not totally. If the short lifespan of i386/amd64 boards is market driven, it is possible that the market for other CPU archs drives different lifespan or quality targets. The extreme end, I suppose, would be a mainframe. Or, are they like the 100 year old axe that has had the handle changed 5 times and the head 3 times? Parts break, redundancy kicks in, change the dead part, still the same computer. If so, you can do that with three cheap i386 boxes. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
