Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 18:49:45 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, (Jamie Bowden) <jamie@itribe.net> Subject: Re: SCSI Bus redundancy... Message-ID: <XFMail.980304184945.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <199803050132.UAA03332@dyson.iquest.net>
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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
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