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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.202210.22438@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:22:10 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.180310.16354@compu.com>, fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) writes:
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- | >>And how does this Equinox cluster controller look? How did they hook 200
- | >>users onto their system. I mean physically.
- |
- | >boxes bolted on large pieces of plywook with a nest of wires (tie wrapped
- | >of course)..
- |
- | Sounds like a real rube-goldberg setup and not very professional.
-
- Sounds state of the art to me. Look in a wire cabinet of any telephone
- system, and you'll see that they have a maze of wires tie wrapped. If
- you use a corolary or something the wire come into a box on J45 (or some
- such) and out on a cable, but inside the black box is still a maze of
- wires, probably with wire ties.
-
- With modem control you have eight wires per user, so there are just a
- lot of wires to be found. You can go into terminal servers and through
- a net, but trying to do modem control signals over a net is
- challenging.
-
- The objective is to be mechanicaly stable for reliability, and
- accessable for maintenence. What larry describes is not "esthetically
- pleasing" (to use a State of NY contract term), but it sounds as though
- it could be solid and reliable. I'll settle for that.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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