Questions tagged [server]
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Physical server with LED display on case, possibly programmable
Sometime in the 2000s I was in the server room of a customer site. This was still in the days of largely on-premise, not necessarily rack-mounted server boxes. A guy from their hardware vendor was ...
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Is there a reason why Apple servers did not catch on?
Is there a reason why Apple server technologies like Apple Workgroup Server and the Apple Network Server never gained widespread use and popularity?
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History of High Availability in the mainframe and minicomputer eras?
When tracing the source of High Availability, I found to my surprise it led to a company named Tandem Computers which since 1974 made a series of minicomputers called NonStop system, to my surprise ...
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How the I/O performance of legacy mainframes/minicomputers in different architectures is measured and benchmarked comparatively?
Powerful in computing power, mainframes were irreplaceable thanks to the capability of processing numerous transactions rather than doing the math.
While computing power is measured in FLOPS and MIPS, ...
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