Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 21:46:25 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jamie@itribe.net Subject: Re: SCSI Bus redundancy... Message-ID: <199803050246.VAA05269@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980304184945.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> from Simon Shapiro at "Mar 4, 98 06:49:45 pm"
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Simon Shapiro said: > > >> > > 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. > There is a debugging/testing version of the 5E, that will run on a Sun workstation. You can theoretically connect the Sun to SMs and have a small 5E in your office :-). I don't know if it was ever productized though. -- 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
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