[LINK] MacIntel: The Thin Client Theory

[Con Zymaris]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:39:48AM +1000, Adam Todd wrote:
> 
> I just wanted to add, that I had a database server crash yesterday.  12 
> hours repair time.  But the funniest part of the story is that the 
> motherboard is dated 1995, the hard drive that appears flakey is dated Feb 
> 1996 and the OS installed was 1996.  It's a Pentium MMX - one of the very 
> first!
> 
> This server has run non-stop (less perhaps about 8 days of power outage, 
> and four hours of relocation) since it was booted.  It's serviced more than 
> 500 trillion records since it was started and just under 15 gigs of data on 
> it.
> 
> I think that's pretty impressive!

And which version of Windows was it running? 

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