Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 15:37:25 06/03/02
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On June 03, 2002 at 15:30:25, J. C. Boco wrote: >On www.hotdealsclub.com I learned that there is a server for sale for $2000. >No, I'm not interested in buying it, but it has resurfaced a question I have had >for some time now. > >Just what makes a computer built for a server different from a regular computer? > Is there a reason why server-computers seem to cost less then regular ones (my >observation based mostly on cursory comparisons between processor speeds and >RAM)? Why do computer manufacturers go out of their way to maintain a server >line of computers? What makes a machine a server is how it is used. Virtually any machine can function as a server. The feature set is likely to be different from an "ordinary" machine, because it *is* used differently, but this is not mandatory. Even a PDA could be made to function as a server.
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