mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) (10/16/88)
3 questions, 1) the optical disk, is the WORM or WMRM? I thought WMRM was a few years off. 2) Will there be a server available or does the NeXT have enough IO bandwidth to handle a couple of FAST hd's? Yes this sound like I want to turn it into a sun, but this could be a system adminstrators nightmare. If you tend to use many different workstations, you are going to have to NFS mount all of them together and this sounds slow. Also updating software would be a nightmare. "I just recomplied TeX for the NeXT's, now I have to copy it to 50 optical disks". 3) I want one! How can Clarkson U. get on the order list? -- Michael DeCorte // (315)268-2292 // P.O. Box 652, Potsdam, NY 13676 Internet mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu // Bitnet mrd@clutx.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------ Clarkson Archiver Server archiver-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server ------------------------------------------------------------
bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (10/18/88)
In article <MRD.88Oct15140913@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) writes: >2) Will there be a server available or does the NeXT have enough IO >bandwidth to handle a couple of FAST hd's? Yes this sound like I >want to turn it into a sun, but this could be a system adminstrators >nightmare. Either use the commodity NFS server (Sun, Pyramid, whatever) that you already have lying around; or string some Wren-N's on the SCSI port of a NeXT cube and configure your own NeXT server from one member of your cluster. The SCSI chip has a lot of steam (did I hear 4MB/s around here somewhere?) The question remains: What version of NFS does NeXT already have? Have they got diskless NFS booting? How soon will they have the automounter and all the other nifties in the version shipping with SunOS 4.0? Has Sun even started shipping source to their developer source licensees? -=- Zippy sez, --Bob Can I have an IMPULSE ITEM instead?