[rescue] Re: Wang Machines

[Kevin Loch]

I see everyone went to the MYASS school of humor :)
Someone should put these up on a site.

KL

Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> 
> OK, ok... when dealing with packets and WANG's one must now a few things
> before connecting the WANG to the network.
> 
> When networked, sometimes Wangs operate inside Firewalls that prevent
> packets from entering the network in case our system has to interact with
> other non-wang (i.e. 3rd party) systems (although want to wang
> communication is also possible, albeit non  desirable, unless we are
> dealing with a homogeneous wang network using a sender/receiver approach).
> 
> Firewalling is done in order to prevent the wang system to be infected by
> malitious virii that might be present in the network. The firewall is also
> used to prevent the packets generated by the wang to reach possible
> listening ports operating in the 3rd party system(s) that are present
> in the network. When reading the wang packets these ports might spawn
> undesired child processes in the 3rd party system(s).
> 
> I still wonder why WANG went out of business..... I would imagine the
> competition among datacenters around the world for owning the largest WANG
> setup. But maybe it was the fact that unlike micro's of the time, people
> did not understand why WANG's systems were getting smaller and faster...
> 
> > Uptime is good, but what's really important is just how capably your
> > Wang can push packets through the pipe it's used on.  If you have a Wang
> > that can't transmit its data, it's effectively cut off and useless.
> > It's important to make sure your Wang is doing its job without losing
> > too many packets, and is up just as often as it needs to be.  It's also
> > important to keep the latency down, because you don't want your Wang's
> > packets to get through the pipe after it's lost relevance.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org] On
> > Behalf Of Chris Kennedy
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:49 PM
> > To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: RE: [rescue] Re: Wang Machines
> >
> > Dave McGuire wrote:
> >
> > > Remember...it's not the size of the Wang, it's the processing power
> > > inside!
> >
> > I've always been told that 'uptime' was the important metric...
> >
> > --
> > Chris Kennedy
> > chris at mainecoon.com
> > http://www.mainecoon.com
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