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>The most recent addition to my desk:
>4 Pentium 700Mhz Xenon processors
>2 Gigabytes RAM
>4 drive RAID array built in, hot-swappable
>12 drive RAID array external, hot-swappable
>Three hot-swappable power supplies
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>All for a measly US$19K. Sure, that's a boatload of money, but this box could essentially run a small country. This would have been a half million US dollar machine not too many years ago.
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>Age of Empires runs really fast on it, too. <g>


LOL (turning green with envy)

Several years ago the company I was working at got one of the first Pentium 90 servers from HP. Before loading Netware, they loaded Win3.11 and made a really big RAM drive on it, then loaded WordImperfect, games, and several other apps. It ran pretty darn fast for those days! This box had an LCD display on it that you could program to display anything you wanted. Ours said "Way too fast". Of course, by todays standards, it's a POS.