This is the hottest Linux business app yet reported, IMHO
eclipsing even Titanic and NASA. It just came through on
Linux-Biz. Let's get the word out ASAP.
Dwight
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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:46:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tracy R Reed <treed@ultraviolet.org>
To: kplug-list@ultraviolet.org
Cc: linux-biz@lege.com, sadhu@aloha.net, ssha@ucsd.edu,
Darin Reed <dreed@txdirect.net>, Ted Reed <REEDT@af.pentagon.mil>,
sean@interactivate.com
Subject: [linux-biz] Linux is reading your mail
Apparently, Linux is being used by the USPS on large scale.
Here's the first paragraph from the web page at:
http://members.aa.net/~jtaves/linux.htm
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John Taves, April 8, 1998
The United States Postal Service deployed over 900 systems throughout the
United States in 1997 to automatically recognize the destination
addresses on mail pieces. Each system consists of 5 dual Pentium Pro
200MHz computers running Linux.
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900 systems each consisting of 5 dual PPro's. To me that looks like 4,500
individual computers and 9000 cpu's running Linux working for the govt.
Add this to the various linux boxes hidden away as servers and the highly
visible Beowulf clusters as NASA and the US Govt is running quite a few
Linux machines. So much for NT as the official OS. :)
-- Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org If Microsoft built cars instead of software, the airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
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