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- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!gary
- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: why I love SGI
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.150847.20906@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <Bx79Gy.GtJ@encore.com> <Bx7n3x.C0z@encore.com> <9211050805.42@rmkhome.UUCP> <Bx9Kp5.DFA@encore.com> <schnitzi.721417007@eola.cs.ucf.edu> <BxKt4K.6BM@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:08:47 GMT
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- In article <BxKt4K.6BM@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM> jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods) writes:
- |In <schnitzi.721417007@eola.cs.ucf.edu> schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius) writes:
- |>dlwilson@fenix.encore.com (David L Wilson) writes:
- |>>Encore's doing fine, thank you, supplying 88000-based multiprocessors to
- |>>anyone who wants one. One nice thing about that is there is no shortage
- |>>of computing power. I have an 8 processor mini, with 1M of cache, 128M
- |>>of memory and a 1.2gig disk to call my own. Mine, all mine!!
- |>Great. Yet another DiskSizeWar.
-
- |And with such a *TINY* machine, too.
-
- Ahhhh, machines don't cut it anymore. It's *networks* that matter.
- The more servers you control, the more hosts you have the root
- password for; that's what counts.
-
- 7 servers, 3 hosts, and about 6.6GB of disc, not counting any of
- the user dweebs' machines. (If I wanted to count the WIP on the
- manufacturing line, that'd be another 500 systems with between
- 200 and 500MB *each*).
-
- Being an admin has it's advantages....
-
-
- --
- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
- The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
- "Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
- radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
-