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Microsoft thinks the Open Compute Project (OCP) moves a bit too slowly, so has tossed out some half-baked server designs in an effort to speed things along. “Project Olympus”, as Microsoft modestly calls its new effort, is both “our next generation hyperscale cloud hardware design and a new model for open source hardware …

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  1. Doogie Howser MD
    Pint

    "OCP runs the cops!"

    "You cocksucker! I work for Dick Jones! Dick Jones! He's the Number Two Guy at OCP. OCP runs the cops!"

    Sorry, couldn't help the gratuitous use of a RoboCop quote.

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  2. CAPS LOCK

    Wasn't it OCP who brought us ED209?

    I believe it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9l9wxGFl4k

    Another errrm, beta prototype...

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    1. Doogie Howser MD
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      Re: Wasn't it OCP who brought us ED209?

      "Someone call a Goddamn paramedic!!"

      <body smokes with bullet holes in background>

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Wasn't it OCP who brought us ED209?

      Doesn't "ED" stand for Erectile Dysfunction?

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  3. Jon Massey
    Trollface

    Alphas?

    I thought that processor architecture was long dead and gone!

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