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To: Elmer who wrote (4142)	2/1/1998 1:24:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 6843

EP <A compute server needs to run many apps. There is a hugh market for compute servers.> Although I do not want to waste my time responding to you short-minded replies, but just for the sake of others in the "elderly" group (in the Rod McPherson sense, including Rod himself:-): apparently the following factors (and probably many others) have escaped your attention: 1. The market for "compute" server does exist, correct. But how "hugh" is it relative to exploding web service this days? 2. If you mean the server for computing, then there is NO BETTER PLATFORM FOR COMPUTING but Alpha machines. They have the BEST compilers, with undisputedly best results. 3. Amongst "many other app", if you mean these toy applications like M$word or Excel spreadsheet, they are not in the list of the "compute server" apps. And will never be.

To: Elmer who wrote (4142)	2/2/1998 8:21:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Elmer, Most servers are 'one trick cowboys', all they do is serve. To use someones desktop to be a server at the same time is quite possible, but is in fact rarely done as it puts the network at the mercy of a local crash. Usually the server runs a robust server program, like Novell or NT or unix, and thats it. Peer to peer networking under win95 is diffrent as on a twisted pair each runs their own apps and grants access to others as desired(thus 'serving' those others), but all those machines are equals, and a crash in one does not hurt the others, beyond denial of access to crash machine data. Bill