This should come as no great surprise considering the Apollo lunar missions were controlled with computers that had less power than the average laptop has these days.
My wonder on this is how are they going to dissipate in such a small package?
Haven't we been here before? Seems Apple and a few others tried the look and feel thing before.
I seem to remember another company suing Lotus over the look and feel of a spreadsheet. Who were they and whatever happened to them?
Your comparison between the costs of supporting NT and supporting Linux are completely wrong.
In your analysis you forgot the cost of the acolytes of BigShaft that have to run NT. From what my experience has been supporting both the Unix environment and the NT environment has been you end up needing more NT folks to support the same number of Unix machines.
In point of fact at one place I worked the ratio of NT admins to machine vs. Unix admins to machines was staggeringly out of sync.
We had roughly 8 NT servers and 4 NT admins. We had 4 Unix admins to service nearly 100 unix servers.
If I add in desktops then there were more like 16 NT admins with the same 4 Unix admins taking care of both servers and desktops. There were half as many Unix desktops, granted, but still the numbers don't jive.
Part of the reason you needed more NT admins in proportion to the number of Unix admins is there was more for the NT admins to do. Always some machine or other was screwed up and the NT guys had to straighten things out.
Now if you add in the fact that I was helping out the NT folks and I'm predominately a Unix guy then there were 17 NT admins and 3 Unix admins...
They must hire complete knuckleheads at MacroHar.
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More of the same FUD that the synchophants at BigHard have been spewing for as long as I can remember about anybody's product that they didn't come up with themselves at their lame headquarters.
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This should come as no great surprise considering the Apollo lunar missions were controlled with computers that had less power than the average laptop has these days.
My wonder on this is how are they going to dissipate in such a small package?
Having said that in my subject header, let me just say that I have mixed feelings about that in this case.
While it may be true in the strictest sense there are those out there who will pillage these wrecks and some history could be lost.
I think the sites should be surveyed by archeologists prior to opening the floodgates to the public
Then designate them as part of the park system and treat them as historical sites.
Haven't we been here before? Seems Apple and a few others tried the look and feel thing before.
I seem to remember another company suing Lotus over the look and feel of a spreadsheet. Who were they and whatever happened to them?
Your comparison between the costs of supporting NT and supporting Linux are completely wrong.
In your analysis you forgot the cost of the acolytes of BigShaft that have to run NT. From what my experience has been supporting both the Unix environment and the NT environment has been you end up needing more NT folks to support the same number of Unix machines.
In point of fact at one place I worked the ratio of NT admins to machine vs. Unix admins to machines was staggeringly out of sync.
We had roughly 8 NT servers and 4 NT admins. We had 4 Unix admins to service nearly 100 unix servers.
If I add in desktops then there were more like 16 NT admins with the same 4 Unix admins taking care of both servers and desktops. There were half as many Unix desktops, granted, but still the numbers don't jive.
Part of the reason you needed more NT admins in proportion to the number of Unix admins is there was more for the NT admins to do. Always some machine or other was screwed up and the NT guys had to straighten things out.
Now if you add in the fact that I was helping out the NT folks and I'm predominately a Unix guy then there were 17 NT admins and 3 Unix admins...
More of the same FUD that the synchophants at BigHard have been spewing for as long as I can remember about anybody's product that they didn't come up with themselves at their lame headquarters.