romkey@asylum.UUCP (John Romkey) (10/14/88)
In article <1100@vsi1.UUCP> lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes: >Maybe I missed it in the press release that was posted, but I haven't seen >any reference to ethernet connection (or any communication medium). Apparently the system has a built-in thin ethernet port, and TCP/IP and NFS. >I'm also curious why anyone would want a 4 MIP machine with an 80 ms disk. >Am I missing something obvious? I *hope* they do some good disk caching with a chunk of the 8MB of memory... -- - john romkey UUCP: romkey@asylum.uucp ARPA: romkey@xx.lcs.mit.edu ...!ames!acornrc!asylum!romkey Telephone: (415) 594-9268
ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) (10/15/88)
>Maybe I missed it in the press release that was posted, but I haven't seen >any reference to ethernet connection (or any communication medium). The machine has Ethernet. The hardware is NeXT-designed. There's a thin-net connector on the back of the CPU board. >I'm also curious why anyone would want a 4 MIP machine with an 80 ms disk. >Am I missing something obvious? Nope. Program startup times at the demo were noticably slow. Once they started, though, they were very fast. -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 2560 Ninth St., Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,uunet}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146 "I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady. I'll fight them as an engineer."
jbs@fenchurch.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) (10/15/88)
In article <960@asylum.UUCP> romkey@asylum.UUCP (John Romkey) writes: >I *hope* they do some good disk caching with a chunk of the 8MB of >memory... All of it that isn't being used for something else at the time. Improved I/O performance is one of the strong points of Mach. Jeff Siegal