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To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
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Subject: Re: Just how fast can we go... (was: Re: SCSI target) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 Apr 95 03:47:32 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 10:12:31 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> Cluster as a poor choice of words.  There is a quite a difference
> between a clustered MP system and two pentia hooked together sharing
> partitions, devices, and running TCP/IP over SCSI.  And maybe with
> 100 mbps ethernet and fs cache it isn't even an interesting idea.
> The latency of the SCSI in FreeBSD is pretty discouraging.

But hey - it's music to the ears of a PC532 owner like me! :-)

Yeah, you know, someday I'm going to do my own private port of FreeBSD
to that box.  I owe it one last fling, and the NS32K series is the
only chipset I've even enjoyed hacking assembly for (a friend and I
did a forth boot ROM in assembler for it :).  Unfortunately, it has
ONLY SCSI as its communication with the outside world.  No network
cards, no VGA, just SCSI.. :-)

						Jordan