said:
>network with its own servers and routers. These things are e-Expensive,
>not particularly cost-efficient for those of us who might use NAS.
Defintely different markets although the vendors attempt to portray them
as competitors.
>Cringely this week has an interesting "take" on getting data across a
>network. It's part of his Supercomputer story at
Yes, interesting.
>Basically he's borrowed the idea of bonding 100 Mbps cards together and
>then using QNX to control the thing.
QNX is another of the relatively interesting "unknown" OS's. I used it
extensively in the mid-80's in a 3-tier data collection/conversion system.
The automatic networking was a very powerful paradigm, especially back
then. It took one part of the problem and made it just disappear. Remind
me next time we are at lunch.
Steven
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