UNIX V7

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Dave McGuire<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: Common indeed - an example from just this week: I was volunteering at FreeGeek Columbus, sifting through a pile of donated 2U servers, when one of the other volunteers _who uses Linux_ asked me what they were (because he honestly didn't recognize a boxy slab as a computer). Upon hearing the answer, he asked what a server does and where you'd use one. It's a bit tough to explain to someone the difference between a rackable server-class machine and a desktop machine when there's little common conceptual ground or vocabulary. I don't know how much of I was saying was starting to make sense because the last question was, "I'm thinking of starting a business with some friends. Do we need a server?" Besides the cop-out answer of "probably, at some point", I really didn't have a good answer for him. It's a good thing I'm not in Sales. -ethan