From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 4 17:33:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17085 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17019 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:33:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03332; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:32:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199803050132.UAA03332@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: SCSI Bus redundancy... In-Reply-To: <199803042014.PAA00502@gatekeeper.itribe.net> from Jamie Bowden at "Mar 4, 98 03:19:15 pm" To: jamie@itribe.net (Jamie Bowden) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:32:16 -0500 (EST) Cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jamie Bowden said: > On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > This is a simplistic examples. Life is nastier than that. Can it be > > solved? Of course. With Unix? Yes, what do you think a 5ESS switch runs? > > With FreeBSD? Yes. As is today? No.... > > Plan9? > The 5E is a network of computers, where the central computer is a modified (or enhanced) 3B20D. Alot of work happens autonomously on the beast. No way could a 3B20D keep up with all of the processing in that complex. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message