Re: linux as a minicomputer ?

[Alan Cox]

> "Benefits all around?"  Such a machine would be slower and more
> expensive than four single processor boxes, so what's the point?

A lot more manageable and for many setups a lot of terminals in one box
actually makes a lot of sense

> This is fundamentally the problem with these kinds of schemes -- they
> get outcompeted on price and availability by the massmarket items.
> This is part of the very attraction of Linux -- it's running Unix on
> stock, cheap, hardware.

The hardware is now massmarket - otherwise I'd agree wholeheartedly. Video
cards are cheap, USB2.0 cards have 4 root bridges per card.