[Info-vax] The Future of Server Hardware?

[JF Mezei]

On 12-09-30 23:45, Michael Moroney wrote:

> Thanks for posting that.  I'm not too far from the other end of that
> particular line (in Ayer, Mass.) and I've checked out the converter
> station there a few times and was a little curious about your end.

To see insive the AC to DC converter:

http://www.hydroquebec.com/learning/transport/grandes-distances.html

It is at bottom right of the page, you click on it and you get bigger
picture. Looks more like a Hollywood set than a real high power electric
facility.

BTW, the AC 3 phase lines are at 735kv, not 750 as I had stated.


BTW, Hydro Québec used to be a big VMS shop and one of the largest
DECnet private networks linking all its facilities to control the
dams/generators.


With regards to Digital, they failed to recognize and adopt change
beause they feared it would cannabalise their more profitable products.
This failure cannabalised the company.

Had Digital provided market leadership with pricing of larger machines,
outfits such as Google may have started with an Alpha and grown with
fewer larger machines instead of a gazillion small inexpensive PC
commodity boxes.


The fact that outfits such as Google did succeed with a gazillion PCs
does not mean that this is the best solution. It means that those who
could have provided the better solution (Dec, HP, Sun, IBM) failed to
provide it in a cost competitive way.