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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
> They should really look at Sprite.  (And anyone thats doing clustering and
> not looking at VMS deserves what they get.)
> 
> On a real cluster running a single image all all the drives would just
> show up.  There wouldn't be any hacking going on.  Stuff like this kind of
> requires 64 bit machines to be at all useful.

And anyone that's doing clustering and things that it can't be
done on a 32 bit machine, and not looking at the VAX, which runs
VMS, deserves what they get.

...Sorry, had to be said... 8-).

-- Terry

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