jwcolby
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Mon Dec 3 19:38:27 CST 2012
Using a lot less power. And all of the money spent on buying those individual boxes can be spent on one more powerful box. John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 12/3/2012 7:04 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote: > Arthur -- > > Why do you suppose you need a "real thing"? - you can have a set of dedicated VMs running on one physical box, running as good as you can have them running on separate boxes... > > Thank you. > > -- Shamil > > > Понедельник, 3 декабря 2012, 17:21 от Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>: >> Ok, I stand corrected. Maybe I just don't have the Big Box with a ton of RAM; that's not a maybe, that's a fact. All I can claim in my defense is that I run Ubuntu, Mint, and Win7 on separate boxes, and there is no comparison on performance. They are all operating simultaneously. The Linux boxes were seriously cheap; the Win7 box was a tad more expensive but still not unreasonable. Recently I decided that I also need a WinXP box, and purchased one with 2GB RAM for less than $100. Yes, it only had a 100MB hard disk, but who cares? That's way more space than installation of everything dating to that era demands. >> >> >> However, lest you think that I am a 100% happy camper, this is not so. I still want a CP/M box and a pure DOS box too. And I don't want VMs, I want the real thing -- totally dedicated to exactly one purpose/OS. >> >> >> A. >> >> <<< skipped >>> > >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-VB mailing list > dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb > http://www.databaseadvisors.com >