From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 4 18:46:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02211 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:46:54 -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 SAA02128 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:46:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA05269; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 21:46:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199803050246.VAA05269@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: SCSI Bus redundancy... In-Reply-To: from Simon Shapiro at "Mar 4, 98 06:49:45 pm" To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 21:46:25 -0500 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jamie@itribe.net From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@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 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