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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 02:19:46 -0000 (UTC)
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>>A long time ago, there was a story going around about Microsoft vs IBM
>>regarding the day-to-day operation of their company web sites.  It
>>claimed that Microsoft was running a ~1000 machine server farm with a
>>crew of ~100, whereas IBM was running 3 mainframes with a crew of ~10.

Those mainframes were probably running Linux.

Not sure why a comparison with servers running Windows is relevant to the 
point I was making, anyway.