Re: New Robot Announcement

Kevin Hoogheem (khooghee@marys.smumn.edu)
Wed, 17 Jan 96 14:20:11 -0600


> Begin forwarded message:
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> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:35:00 -0600
> From: ecarp@tssun5.dsccc.com (Ed Carp @ TSSUN5)
> To: robots@webcrawler.com
> Subject: Re: New Robot Announcement
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> Sender: owner-robots@webcrawler.com
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> > From owner-robots@webcrawler.com Tue Jan 16 17:55 CST 1996
> > Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:17:25 -0500
> > From: David@interworld.com (David Levine)
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> > To: robots@webcrawler.com
> > Subject: Re: New Robot Announcement
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> > Ed Carp @ TSSUN5 wrote:
> > > I was under the impression that most web servers were running
> > > on a UNIX box.
> > > What else are you going to run a server on? I would argue
> > > that NT doesn't
> > > have the horsepower, and tehre aren't a lot of alternatives.
> >
> >
> > NT can be extremely powerful when running on a Dec Alpha.
>
> So can linux ;)
>
So can a Vic 20.. But thats not the real problem is it.
Hell any machine can be real powerful if you let it. Half of you
would laugh if I told you we were runnign our Webserver on an Apple
Quadra 950 running A/UX - apples version of UNIX but then again it
does have 80Megs of RAM which makes it hum