Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 07:32:47 -0400 (EDT)
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I like a the idea of starting out small with a growth plan. What I'm
struggling with is how much can we do on a PC/UNIX machine. I don't even
know what units of measurement to use here but I know we don't want to
start web publish grossly underpowered....
Doug
On Tue, 9 May 1995, Rex Ballard wrote:
>
> As I said earlier, we chose UNIX as a platform because we knew we
> could migrate from a PC/Linux system up to an alpha then to a Pyramid
> or even a "Thinking Machines" box (about 400 processors and drives
> working together).
>
> WindowsNT is supposed to be scalable too. Unfortunately I don't get
> source code that can be shuffled around, and I don't have people who
> can tune the operating system to my system's needs.
>
> Last report I had was that Exchange "forms" api's still hadn't been
> released, and may be abandoned altogether in favor of the Mosaic CGI
> interface. I'm sure we'll be hearing this breakthrough announcement
> any day now.
>
> Rex Ballard
> Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
> Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
> the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.
>
>
>
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