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		_lqaf on March 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux was first released to the world from here 17... You may as well ask why big systems are needed for anything. You can run Postgres on a 10 year old laptop, but you can't run Postgres on a 10 year old laptop as a backend for the USPS.

gregoriol on March 19, 2020 | [–]

An SQL database workload I would understand, but an FTP seems mostly filesystem/io not memory and cpu bound. If you have more information, I'd be happy to have the details.

iso-8859-1 on March 19, 2020 | [–]

I didn't know USPS had such high requirements. Where can I learn more about this?

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