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To: rudedog who wrote (13290)12/17/1998 9:43:00 PM
From: DownSouth  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
>but really what is going on is more like tuning a special purpose version of the OS

Their architecture is much more than "tuning". It is the elimination of the overhead and sys admin of functions that are not needed. They are stripping out the code and then tuning and streamlining what is required for the database appliance.