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| From | "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: The decline of the dinosaurs? |
| Date | 2016-07-01 08:26 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <nl5r1e$n76$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <nl00hu$l0$1@dont-email.me><MPG.31dd5797e467f0698a2e6@news.eternal-september.org><1lvc4d-d79.ln1@sambook.reistad.name> <20160630205023.79dcb370@amaterasu> |
"Mike Causer" <m.r.causer@goglemail.com> wrote in message news:20160630205023.79dcb370@amaterasu... > 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. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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