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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <20160630205023.79dcb370@amaterasu> (permalink) |
| References | <nl00hu$l0$1@dont-email.me> <MPG.31dd5797e467f0698a2e6@news.eternal-september.org> <1lvc4d-d79.ln1@sambook.reistad.name> |
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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