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To: puborectalis who wrote (18734)1/28/2001 7:56:48 PM
From: Ausdauer  Read Replies (1) of 60323
 
With the recent blackouts in California...

...one wonders is there are any portions of the Internet infrastructure
that are vulnerable to a powered down situation and who might need
additional flash memory for critical system functions.

This was posted earlier...

Message 15162297

From our local paper I read that system architectures are out-dated...

"Most of the boxes that are in there today are the same kind of computer architecture
that was around in the Charlie Chaplin ads IBM did 15-20 years ago," said Spiro Koulouras,
CEO of FiberCycle Networks Inc.

FiberCycle, RLX Technologies Inc. and others are planning to launch servers
using lower-energy chips developed by Transmeta Corp.


webserv3.startribune.com

Any commments would be appreciated.

Aus
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