[THIN] Re: Hybrid question?
- From: "Jim Kenzig http://Kenzig.com" <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:30:54 -0800 (PST)
Yeah,,, Winframe1.6 even.. heavens to mergatroid! Have to admit I still have
all the CD's all the way back to Winview. Why I keep them I don't
know...nostalgia I guess...of course I just finally threw out my 5 1/4"360 k
and 1.2 meg floppies when I moved and some 720k 3 and 1/2 inch disks... (over
3000 of them!) I used to run a phone bbs system and would back up my whopping
80 meg mfm hard drive which I also just threw out (in 1988 that was huge) from
my IBM PC XT to them. You needed a special Adaptec controller to run a drive
that large back then that cost like $400. (The drive itself cost like $1200.)
It took hundreds of floppies to back up that drive with dos backup. Yeah I got
to be state of the art when I got that baby up to dos 4.0! I ran a bbs system
called Telix. I had 3 lines coming into my house and sold text advertising on
the site. I had hundreds of shareware files for download. I would connect to
other systems and download every file they had then put them up
on my
site and would buy all those shareware disks at computer shows and put them
up. Shows how long I've been doing this and been in the business. Where is
gopher when you need it. : )
Jim
Steve Snyde> wrote:
or lots of winframe servers? ;)
On 11/1/05, Jim Kenzig http://Kenzig.com <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: And are
there still dinosaurs and cavemen where you work Neil? ; )
"Braebaum, Neil" < Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Well the 10 year
thing may not be so ridiculous.
All the Winterms I deployed in the field, dating back to 98, are the original
items (a small number may have been replaced - like-for-like by engineers but
all are the same model).
Up until very recently, I had some of the original server hardware in use. The
main reason for decommissioning some of it (and I'm talking about 200 Mhz
Pentium Pro server hardware) is simply management costs, and datacentre real
estate.
But the hardware still works and supports very similar loads to the original
implementation. It's only when you increase OS or application demands that
things become obsolete. But the investment my company made in the initial end
user hardware has not needed replacement. Nor will it likely do, before the
implementation is removed. And that won't be far off 10 years.
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