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Re: The decline of the dinosaurs?

From Mike Causer <m.r.causer@goglemail.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: The decline of the dinosaurs?
Date 2016-06-30 20:50 +0100
Organization I'm sure I had one last week
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 15:39:13 +0200
Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> wrote:

> It has gone into "the network is the computer" almost seamlessly.

But then Sun extended it to the dickless computer.  Fail!  Although we
had quite a few of them they were a complete PITA.  Fail-over NFS
servers didn't exist and swervers frequently collapsed under the load.

In an experiment to see if early Sparcs could work diskless we took two
new ones and put the disk of one into the other.  Network names were
Castor and Pollux respectively-- almost all machines had star names.


Mike

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