Re: Heard from MS this pm...

Well, frankly, 99.999%of the problems I've seen with servers of late is
NOT the CPU...it's some damn config (TC, terminal, tcpip, etc) or software
bug.  ...usually some CNE wannabe has futzed up something or the
interfacing software (can you say CA/95?) isn't working as it's supposed
to...  but to blame it on the CPU is generally not correct...except for
those RARE occassions when the machine things that
2/2=1.99999999999999998.

Works for the Fed, eh?  I remember when I lived in Richmond going to the
Fed downtown for VABE meetings...great place, good food and the VABE there
was a interesting group...

Don in DC metro

On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, John Carr wrote:

> RE:   Heard from MS this pm...
> 
> >Went to a meeting this pm where one of the featured presenters was a MS'er
> >doing a "statement of direction for MS" kinda schtick...  One of the
> >things he mentioned was just returning from the Intel Labs and actually
> >seeing working Pentiums running at 2k Mhz!  , ergo 2 ghz!  Said they'ld be
> >out in a few years...
> >
> >Impressive!  Wonder what the co$t will be thought...
> 
> 
> Did he say how fast it waited?  Or what it did with that speed while 
> waiting for an I/O, etc?    
> 
> And the BIG question, will the 3 finger salute still be required every
> xxx hours?   (Now xxx, is a 1 or 2 or 3 digit number?)
> 
> In other words:  "Will it still go Casters Up?"
> 
> Just after I read your email,  my wife came home from work in a huff.
> She works for the same company that Allen Greenspan works for,  and
> they just installed PeopleSoft on the servers to replace the old
> mainframe green screen apps.  She said(this is Really life)
> she only could process 3 invoices today because the server went down
> (Casters Up) 5 times and her PC went down 4 times (3 finger salutes)
> 
> I don't know whether those were 100 or 200 Mhz servers,
> or whether they were single CPU's or Quads though. 
> 
> But HER bottom line was that she processed 3 invoices today not the 
> normal 100 (the old green screen Mainframe app the servers replaced)
> 
> 100 down to 3 I guess thats the price of progress.
> 
> Maybe 1 Ghz will IPL faster, 5 times a day eh?
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