Re: SCSI on steroids, mainframes move over

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From: Tom Littauer
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1989 13:53

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In article <452@ctycal.UUCP> ingoldsb@ctycal.COM (Terry Ingoldsby) writes:
> ...
>I think that small single user systems are ideally suited to
>simple operating systems like UNIX.  UNIX (and for that matter
>VMS) don't effectively manage the I/O subsystems of larger
>machines.  IMHO.

Most don't - it is, as you point out, alien to most UNIX system developers,
since they live in a small-box world. It's cost us a lot to scale up UNIX
systems to run on our big machines... 
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From: littauer@uts.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer)
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Subject: Re: SCSI on steroids, mainframes move over
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Date: 30 Aug 89 13:53:35 GMT
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