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Article #623192Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: David Wade
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 18:38
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 18:38
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On 22/06/2018 17:20, Andrew Swallow wrote: > On 22/06/2018 11:53, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote: >> On 22/06/2018 11:36, Peter Flass wrote: >>> >>> Of course as a mainframe guy, I never could see why companies would >>> want to >>> run mission-critical stuff on glorified video game consoles anyhow. > Its also interesting that the CELL CPU which was first used in the Sony PlayStation is also the basis of the chips used in IBM mainframes. In order to provide fast graphics modern Games Consoles need fast CPUs. Much more so than a typical PC... >> An interesting viewpoint of the world of the PC! >> >> > That is what most people in IBM thought until sales of PCs exceeded > sales of mainframes.
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