From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 4 18:43:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01268 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:43:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA01222 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:43:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 17167 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Mar 1998 02:49:45 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-021598 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199803050132.UAA03332@dyson.iquest.net> Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 18:49:45 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: "John S. Dyson" Subject: Re: SCSI Bus redundancy... Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, (Jamie Bowden) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Mar-98 John S. Dyson wrote: > 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. There was a talk about putting a SPARC in these things. My guess used to be 8th Eddition Unix, or maybe 10th Edition. I think the discussion was around (or relevant) to the part that produces CDRs, not the switching matrix stuff. I always see them as a black box running Unix and talking TCP/IP. ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message