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Originally Posted by Scott R View Post
Thats not a "unix" box, that's an x86 flavor linux/bsd box, "unix" is an incorrect term. Unix is non-stop, itanium, hp ux, aix, solaris, etc. And an eight core box is just bout nothing in the server world, thats a two processors with four cores. What mule is talking about is a 8 to 16 physical processors, more in the range of 16 or 32 cores, those are high end.
We are not talking about servers. Workstations.

And yes you can get 8 processor workstations but if you guys think an Apple is expensive......
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