Re: IceBreak as an alternative to Apache?

On 1/1/2011 11:26 (or thereabouts) AM, Joe wrote:

I'm not even sure where to take this particular question, Maurice. A
single-user MS-DOS machine compared to an IBM i? How do these even
compare? One runs an enterprise, the other runs (maybe) a store front.
How do you compare these?

For starters they have a CPU, memory and a hard disk (a bit like a computer
I suppose), and then they obviously have an operating system, that is how I
would compare them.

It's interesting that you
bring up music, because multimedia machines now require 64-bit Windows
because they need more than 4GB of memory to run efficiently. But come
on - why do you need a gigabyte of RAM to run Office? Just wondering.

Sorry I disagree, the majority of pro recording (PC) applications run on
windows XP with maybe 2GB of ram, indeed many a recording pro will advise
you to use XP (you don't need 64 bit at all)

(It is reckoned by some that Leo Fender got it right first time with the
Fender Stratocaster, so why change anything ever?)

Not sure what your point is. If you talk to a lot of guitarists, they
insist that tubes still sound better than transistors for amplifiers.
As a keyboard player I can say with authority that guitarists are
weird. Of course, a guitarist would disagree. In fact, the only thing
keyboard players and guitarists agree on is that drummers are REALLY
strange <grin>.

I might have guessed that you are a 'weird' keyboard player, but at least we
agree about drummers<grin>

But to your point, the Strat is far from static. Even though the basic
design is the same, it has changed quite a bit, in some cases
substantially, whether it's the construction of the neck or the
configuration of the pickups (humbucker, anyone?). In that way, the
comparison to the IBM i actually quite apropos - a groundbreaking
architecture that continues to evolve and provide new functionality,
while at the same time running workloads on a single machine that
require banks of servers in just about any other design. That is what
makes the IBM i superior. In my opinion.

The design of the Strat hasn't changed significantly, it's just that there
are now a number of different flavours of it out there (unlike the IBM i)

Fun to talk and if the AS/400 got it right first time then I take my hat off
to IBM!

Maurice