Re: OT about Asus, was Re: What is the point of RAID?
On 11/09/08 07:50, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
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,
That's the point. It's *market* driven, not architecture driven.
it is possible that the market for other CPU archs drives
different lifespan or quality targets.
Most 68K and PPC mobos went into Macintoshes, which in those days
were made (with a few expections) to a pretty high quality. But
that's not because they were powered by the MC68K or PPC, but
because that's how Apple wanted them built.
Similarly, x86 systems built by IBM, HP and Compaq (back when they
actually built their own systems, and cared about high quality)
lasted a long time, even though they were x86.
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.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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