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- From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin)
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:52:46 GMT
- Subject: Re: HOw many PC's make an Amdahl mainframe
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- In-Reply-To: gints@prophet.esd.sgi.com's message of 26 Jan 93 22:06:24 GMT
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- In article ... gints@prophet.esd.sgi.com (Gints Klimanis) writes:
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- Well, we need some room to get to the machines, so we can
- change the 750 floppies during backups. Let's make the
- room 3x the length, so we have long rows of stacked PC's
- with 4' aisles. Now the room is:
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- 20' wide, 60' long, and 7' high.
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- The question is, are there any rooms this large in the
- world?
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- The HP open-plan office I am in at the moment is about 14' high and
- about 90' x 180' (this is just the Labs half), assuming that I can manage
- 3' a stride and that my estimation by eye that the building is twice as
- long as wide is in bounds. A safety-factor of 27 seems acceptable.
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- Just strip out the cubicle walls. We've even got power and LAN laid on under
- the floor-tiles ...
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