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Volume 4 ,  Issue 3  (April 2006) table of contents
Purpose-built Systems
DEPARTMENT: Interview table of contents
Pages: 13 - 21  
Year of Publication: 2006
ISSN:1542-7730
Author
Charlene O'Hanlon  ACM Queue
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

When thinking about purpose-built systems, it’s easy to focus on the high-visibility consumer products—the iPods, the TiVos. Lying in the shadows of the corporate data center, however, are a number of less-glamorous devices built primarily to do one specific thing—and do it well and reliably.