Or you could go for the really obvious one:
Symmetric Wide-Area Multi-Processing, or SWAMP.
Of course, the inevitable will happen and the SWAMP will at some point become, wait for it, swamped!
*crickets*
Okay, see the problem with that argument is that it was always dependant on those variables. However changing them usually required a minimum of stopping the engine and mucking about with a spanner for half an hour...
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Or you could go for the really obvious one: Symmetric Wide-Area Multi-Processing, or SWAMP. Of course, the inevitable will happen and the SWAMP will at some point become, wait for it, swamped! *crickets*
Okay, see the problem with that argument is that it was always dependant on those variables. However changing them usually required a minimum of stopping the engine and mucking about with a spanner for half an hour...