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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.

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Sincerely Yours, 

Simon Shapiro
Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG                      Voice:   503.799.2313

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