Re: IceBreak as an alternative to Apache?

["Maurice O'Prey" <Maurice.Oprey@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/1/2011 11:26 (or thereabouts) AM, Joe wrote:

> I'm not even sure where to take this particular question, Maurice.   A 
> single-user MS-DOS machine compared to an IBM i?  How do these even 
> compare?  One runs an enterprise, the other runs (maybe) a store front.  
> How do you compare these?

For starters they have a CPU, memory and a hard disk (a bit like a computer
I suppose), and then they obviously have an operating system, that is how I
would compare them.

> It's interesting that you 
> bring up music, because multimedia machines now require 64-bit Windows 
> because they need more than 4GB of memory to run efficiently.  But come 
> on - why do you need a gigabyte of RAM to run Office?  Just wondering.

Sorry I disagree, the majority of pro recording (PC) applications run on
windows XP with maybe 2GB of ram, indeed many a recording pro will advise
you to use XP (you don't need 64 bit at all)

> (It is reckoned by some that Leo Fender got it right first time with the
> Fender Stratocaster, so why change anything ever?)

> Not sure what your point is.  If you talk to a lot of guitarists, they 
> insist that tubes still sound better than transistors for amplifiers.  
> As a keyboard player I can say with authority that guitarists are 
> weird.  Of course, a guitarist would disagree.  In fact, the only thing 
> keyboard players and guitarists agree on is that drummers are REALLY 
> strange <grin>.

I might have guessed that you are a 'weird' keyboard player, but at least we
agree about drummers<grin>


> But to your point, the Strat is far from static.  Even though the basic 
> design is the same, it has changed quite a bit, in some cases 
> substantially, whether it's the construction of the neck or the 
> configuration of the pickups (humbucker, anyone?).  In that way, the 
> comparison to the IBM i actually quite apropos - a groundbreaking 
> architecture that continues to evolve and provide new functionality, 
> while at the same time running workloads on a single machine that 
> require banks of servers in just about any other design.  That is what 
> makes the IBM i superior.  In my opinion.

The design of the Strat hasn't changed significantly, it's just that there
are now a number of different flavours of it out there (unlike the IBM i)

Fun to talk and if the AS/400 got it right first time then I take my hat off
to IBM!

Maurice