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- From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
- Subject: Re: History was made today...
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:21:17 GMT
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- In article <Dec.21.04.38.17.1992.29194@remus.rutgers.edu> clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec19.170507.4692@siia.mv.com>, David Dick writes:
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- >> I once heard of someone saying that trying to use PCs to replace
- >> mainframes [for some tasks] is like trying to plow a field with
- >> a herd of chickens.
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- >But what if the chickens are the size of a horse? Considering the
- >power of PCs today, they might even be as big as elephants.
- >--
- >Chris Long, 265 Old York Rd., Bridgewater, NJ 08807-2618
- >
- Grace Hopper (a wonderful speaker, who died early this year) was fond of
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- telling a story about a farmer who was faced with the problem of trying
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- to pull a tractor out of the mud. When he found that one horse was not
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- enough to do the job his solution was not to try to grow a bigger horse
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- but rather to hitch-up more than one horse. She used this anology to
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- promote distributed processing with computers. However, a retort that I
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- heard was that although one might try using several horses trying to
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- hitch-up 10,000 chickens is not a good idea!
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