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- Path: sparky!uunet!concert!rock!taco!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!arnold
- From: arnold@essss1.stat.ncsu.edu (Tim Arnold)
- Subject: Re: Free-Net organizational Committee: Hardware & Software Issues; Set-up
- In-Reply-To: hallman@gibbs.oit.unc.edu's message of Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:46:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <ARNOLD.92Sep2194105@essss1.stat.ncsu.edu>
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Department of Statistics, NCSU
- References: <1992Aug29.174607.17548@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Distribution: triangle
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:41:05 GMT
- Lines: 258
-
-
- So far, my machine is not aware of the
- triangle.freenet.hwsw group, so I thought I'd
- put my thoughts into this group.
-
- From the recent posting concerning questions the
- hardware/software committee should think about:
- What kind of OS
- What manufacturer
- What Capacity
- What about Flexibility
-
- Well, just to get some discussion started,
- what about:
- UNIX OS, seems like a natural to me,
- multi-user, networking built-in.
-
- Manufacturer: this may be like a religious
- question, but I'm pretty sure the SUN machines
- are running a freenet somewhere, so the
- software must be SUN compatible at least.
-
- I admit to some partiality here (I work on a Sun)
- and I promise to check on what machine types
- are running a couple of the freenets.
-
- Capacity: I don't have any idea, but disk space
- is fairly cheap (if that's the question--maybe the
- maximum number of users is the question?)
- Well, we want to be the best, right? Bill Hutchins
- said there were 96 users on Cleveland on a Saturday
- night, so does that mean we need at least 100
- possible simultaneous users?
-
-
- So I'm thinking a Sun Sparc II at least (a Sparc 10 would be
- great with ISDN) Say 32meg memory? 1.5 gig disk, located
- in some small office in RTP.
-
- By the way, what about incorporating Gopher and WAIS
- into the machine? Are the current packages running
- on the FreeNets what we really want? Or maybe offer
- different access modes?
-
- I'll see what I can find out about the already existing
- freenets and post that ASAP. In the meantime, what do
- you think?
-
- -- Tim
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Tim Arnold Instructional Computing
- Internet: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu North Carolina State Univ.
- BITNET : ARNOLD@NCSUSTAT Dept. of Statistics, Raleigh NC 27695
- Phone : 919 515 2584 FAX: 919 515 7591
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Newsgroups: triangle.freenet
- From: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu (Tim Arnold)
- Path: arnold
- Distribution: world
- Followup-To:
- Organization: Department of Statistics, NCSU
- Subject: hardware/software
- Keywords:
-
- So far, my machine is not aware of the
- triangle.freenet.hwsw group, so I thought I'd
- put my thoughts into this group.
-
- From the recent posting concerning questions the
- hardware/software committee should think about:
- What kind of OS
- What manufacturer
- What Capacity
- What about Flexibility
-
- Well, just to get some discussion started,
- what about:
- UNIX OS, seems like a natural to me,
- multi-user, networking built-in.
-
- Manufacturer: this may be like a religious
- question, but I'm pretty sure the SUN machines
- are running a freenet somewhere, so the
- software must be SUN compatible at least.
-
- I admit to some partiality here (I work on a Sun)
- and I promise to check on what machine types
- are running a couple of the freenets.
-
- Capacity: I don't have any idea, but disk space
- is fairly cheap (if that's the question--maybe the
- maximum number of users is the question?
- Well, we want to be the best, right? Bill Hutchins
- said there were 96 users on Cleveland on a Saturday
- night, so does that mean we need at least 100
- possible simultaneous users?
-
- Flexibility and growth are big words for me.
-
- So I'm thinking a Sun Sparc II at least (a 10 would be
- great with ISDN) Say 32meg memory? 1.5 gig disk, located
- in some small office in RTP.
-
- By the way, what about incorporating Gopher and WAIS
- into the machine? Are the current packages running
- on the FreeNets what we really want? Or maybe offer
- different access modes?
-
- I'll see what I can find out about the already existing
- freenets and post that ASAP. In the meantime, what do
- you think?
-
- --
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Tim Arnold Instructional Computing
- Internet: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu North Carolina State Univ.
- BITNET : ARNOLD@NCSUSTAT Dept. of Statistics, Raleigh NC 27695
- Phone : 919 515 2584 FAX: 919 515 7591
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Newsgroups: triangle.freenet
- From: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu (Tim Arnold)
- Path: arnold
- Distribution: world
- Followup-To:
- Organization: Department of Statistics, NCSU
- Subject: hardware/software
- Keywords:
-
- So far, my machine is not aware of the
- triangle.freenet.hwsw group, so I thought I'd
- put my thoughts into this group.
-
- From the recent posting concerning questions the
- hardware/software committee should think about:
- What kind of OS
- What manufacturer
- What Capacity
- What about Flexibility
-
- Well, just to get some discussion started,
- what about:
- UNIX OS, seems like a natural to me,
- multi-user, networking built-in.
-
- Manufacturer: this may be like a religious
- question, but I'm pretty sure the SUN machines
- are running a freenet somewhere, so the
- software must be SUN compatible at least.
-
- I admit to some partiality here (I work on a Sun)
- and I promise to check on what machine types
- are running a couple of the freenets.
-
- Capacity: I don't have any idea, but disk space
- is fairly cheap (if that's the question--maybe the
- maximum number of users is the question?
- Well, we want to be the best, right? Bill Hutchins
- said there were 96 users on Cleveland on a Saturday
- night, so does that mean we need at least 100
- possible simultaneous users?
-
- Flexibility and growth are big words for me.
-
- So I'm thinking a Sun Sparc II at least (a 10 would be
- great with ISDN) Say 32meg memory? 1.5 gig disk, located
- in some small office in RTP.
-
- By the way, what about incorporating Gopher and WAIS
- into the machine? Are the current packages running
- on the FreeNets what we really want? Or maybe offer
- different access modes?
-
- I'll see what I can find out about the already existing
- freenets and post that ASAP. In the meantime, what do
- you think?
-
- --
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Tim Arnold Instructional Computing
- Internet: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu North Carolina State Univ.
- BITNET : ARNOLD@NCSUSTAT Dept. of Statistics, Raleigh NC 27695
- Phone : 919 515 2584 FAX: 919 515 7591
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Newsgroups: triangle.freenet
- From: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu (Tim Arnold)
- Path: arnold
- Distribution: world
- Followup-To:
- Organization: Department of Statistics, NCSU
- Subject: hardware/software
- Keywords:
-
- So far, my machine is not aware of the
- triangle.freenet.hwsw group, so I thought I'd
- put my thoughts into this group.
-
- From the recent posting concerning questions the
- hardware/software committee should think about:
- What kind of OS
- What manufacturer
- What Capacity
- What about Flexibility
-
- Well, just to get some discussion started,
- what about:
- UNIX OS, seems like a natural to me,
- multi-user, networking built-in.
-
- Manufacturer: this may be like a religious
- question, but I'm pretty sure the SUN machines
- are running a freenet somewhere, so the
- software must be SUN compatible at least.
-
- I admit to some partiality here (I work on a Sun)
- and I promise to check on what machine types
- are running a couple of the freenets.
-
- Capacity: I don't have any idea, but disk space
- is fairly cheap (if that's the question--maybe the
- maximum number of users is the question?
- Well, we want to be the best, right? Bill Hutchins
- said there were 96 users on Cleveland on a Saturday
- night, so does that mean we need at least 100
- possible simultaneous users?
-
- Flexibility and growth are big words for me.
-
- So I'm thinking a Sun Sparc II at least (a 10 would be
- great with ISDN) Say 32meg memory? 1.5 gig disk, located
- in some small office in RTP.
-
- By the way, what about incorporating Gopher and WAIS
- into the machine? Are the current packages running
- on the FreeNets what we really want? Or maybe offer
- different access modes?
-
- I'll see what I can find out about the already existing
- freenets and post that ASAP. In the meantime, what do
- you think?
-
- --
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Tim Arnold Instructional Computing
- Internet: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu North Carolina State Univ.
- BITNET : ARNOLD@NCSUSTAT Dept. of Statistics, Raleigh NC 27695
- Phone : 919 515 2584 FAX: 919 515 7591
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- --
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Tim Arnold Instructional Computing
- Internet: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu North Carolina State Univ.
- BITNET : ARNOLD@NCSUSTAT Dept. of Statistics, Raleigh NC 27695
- Phone : 919 515 2584 FAX: 919 515 7591
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-