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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 1999 04:43:13 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
To:        Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com>, FreeBSd Chat list <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Will Ebay ever learn?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.990723044132.67308B-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990723095358.C98688@palmerharvey.co.uk>

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On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote:

> > Large central points of failure tend to do just that, fail.
> 
> Which is quite amsuing, because the entire starfire (Sun E10K) design is
> designed around *not* having single points of failure.
> 

Being able to replace all sorts of hardware with the machine up doesn't 
do you much good when the sprinkler head directly overhead goes off.




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