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Date:      Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:32:16 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        jamie@itribe.net (Jamie Bowden)
Cc:        shimon@simon-shapiro.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI Bus redundancy...
Message-ID:  <199803050132.UAA03332@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199803042014.PAA00502@gatekeeper.itribe.net> from Jamie Bowden at "Mar 4, 98 03:19:15 pm"

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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.

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