Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/

> 
> You can get a Dell with stuff like that for $3000. It's not *that* 
> expensive. You can get a 4T hard drive case for like $250 or something 
> (without the 4T of drives, of course).

Oh, "only" $3,000. Bargin. ;-)

>> If you buy something like a HP BladeCenter you can slot more CPUs, 
>> RAM, HDs, etc. into and out of it without even powering it off. But 

> 
> Or buy a Tandem computer, where when a part fails, it dials up Tandem, 
> and they ship you a new one with instructions on where to put it, before 
> you even know it failed.

Oh, that's cute. (Are they still going?)

> The ones that boggle my mind are the ones where you can upgrade the OS 
> without stopping any of the programs.  I'm not quite sure how that works.

Neither do I - but people claim that functional programming is going to 
revolutionise the industry by making this kind of thing standard. 
[insert sarcasm here]

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