[A86] Re: ? [OT]
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> From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
> Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:19:27 -0700
> To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
> Subject: [A86] Re: ? [OT]
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> Heh, there's no way Linux could handle anything as large as AOL...
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> I would imagine most of AOL's servers are very large Sun boxes running
> Solaris, or are IBM mainframes running AIX (or most likely a combination of
> the two).
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> Sure, AOL might look like it sucks from a user's perspective, but when you
> think about the sheer number of users it has to handle at one time (probably
> at least 20-50 million), you've got to have a pretty impressive setup.
>
>> I wish Steve Case was my father...that way I could get into AOL HQ and
>> secretly install Linux on all their servers.
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