[rescue] Making the network the computer

[Lionel Peterson]

--- David Rouse <david at rouseworld.org> wrote:

> We've got a Ultra 1 running Progress (the commercial software), two
> Progress
> database packages and a cobol accounting package. On the Ultra 1 is
> two SCSI
> controllers (the kind with the built-in ethernet) and four unipacks
> set up as a
> 0+1 DiskSuite RAID. We've got a mix of PCs and Wyse terminals
> accessing the apps
> (traditional curses type UI).
> 
> We've been thinking about replacing this with a heftier machine,
> everyone we've
> talked to has been "Sun 280" or Sun "480." I'm sure that would be
> nice, but I've
> been thinking...

Wow, that is a big jump in processor speed/system performance - what is
the driver - Affordable support, increase in work load, what?

Just curious - for a few $$ you could throw several U60s at this
"problem" (each has dual SCSI chains built-in) and save *thousands* of
dollars...

just curious

Lionel

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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976