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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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