Datacenters can put up to 1800 servers in a single, 47U rack, which could take 10X as many racks using a standard architecture.

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It had a standard architecture and everything is exactly the same.

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While Sony has wisely adopted a standard x86 PC architecture for the its new game console (translation: developer friendly), the PS3 was driven by incompatible Power PC architecture from IBM.

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Her seminal book "Learning from Las Vegas, " written with Venturi and Steven Izenour and published in 1972, has been in print ever since and is still a standard text for architecture students.

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Personified by elegant Gropius and touted by hyperconnected Johnson, the Bauhaus became a ready standard-bearer for International Style architecture.

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NEC, which has a proprietary architecture different from the industry standard set by IBM, is hard-pressed by foreign makers - and Fujitsu.

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In the kitchen, large, granite-topped islands that seat four to eight people are popular, as are supersize showers with sitting space, says Jeffrey Lake, Standard Pacific's national head of architecture.

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The group made substantial progress in April by approving the technical requirements, architecture and definitions upon which the standard will be based.

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As part of that plan, today Microsoft is making the Windows Embedded Standard 8 community technology preview (CTP) available on the x86 architecture.

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PC's architecture was not perfect, but its adoption as an industry standard made possible economies of scale in both hardware and software.

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