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But savings on the big-iron bill are being translated into more content, and that's where these cars get scary.
A Bargain-Priced Hatch Dan Neil 2011
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Will these small worlds garner more usership in the long run than the big-iron, mega-landscape worlds such as SL and There?
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Will these small worlds garner more usership in the long run than the big-iron, mega-landscape worlds such as SL and There?
June 2008 2008
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Google, singlehandedly, has caused me to completely rethink my opinions on the viability of big-iron cloud based computing via thin client dumb terminal solutions with subscription or pay-for-play application models, just within the last month.
Wired Top Stories 2008
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The other thing that rankles me is that the lower Hudson Valley has more conservatives than the average south NY county, but the paper seems to stick to a left-of-center journalistic template that threatens to render big-iron journalism obsolete.
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The weapons that he and the other ‘big-iron’ advocates find sexy are ten billion dollar missile systems with no operating radars that have yet to pass an objective test sitting in holes in Alaska.
Think Progress » McClellan: Transportation Bill Was a Model of Fiscal Discipline 2005
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At Tandem Computers and then Digital Equipment Corporation in the '80s and '90s, Gray helped develop what is now called grid computing, paving the way for the mammoth server farms that made big-iron mainframes obsolete.
Inside the High Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend Steve Silberman 2007
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At Tandem Computers and then Digital Equipment Corporation in the '80s and '90s, Gray helped develop what is now called grid computing, paving the way for the mammoth server farms that made big-iron mainframes obsolete.
Inside the High Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend 2007
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Of course many models/codes that at one time needed the big-iron mainframes now run on PCs.
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By making the Sparc/Solaris tandem the foundation of big-iron SMP appliances, the company is ...
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