[rescue] The aesthetics of rescue

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 10:13 AM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>>   Bullshit...I've used several of both and run them side by side, and
>> while NetApps are really great machines, Auspexes (of similar
>> generations) kick the snot out of them.
>>
>>   There's no substitute for dedicated hardware and distributed
>> processing.
>
>> From my understanding, the only reason you can hold that opinion so 
>> hard
> is because you refuse to acknowledge that the new machines labels 
> auspex
> are really auspexs.  From what I've heard, newer Auspexs (like when 
> they
> went to NT instead of the custom sparc stuff) aren't as nice as 
> NetApps.
>
> But, I could be wrong.  Except I think I heard that from you.  I never
> have such nice toys around to play with/use/lay eyes upon.

   You're absolutely right...I'm talking about "real" Auspex servers, 
not their great big PCs running NT with crappy software.

   But then again, I haven't taken NetApp seriously since they went back 
to PCs from real hardware either.

         -Dave

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