Re: High Availability for NeXTs

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From: Mike Matlack
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 16:07

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In article <1992Oct8.195446.8138@liveware.com> todd@liveware.com writes:
> In article <1992Oct5.210010.8108@almserv.uucp> rmcghee@fnma.com(Rich  
McGhee)  
> writes:
> > Has anybody spent anytime thinking about or working on a High  
Availability  
> > solution for NeXT machines?  That is, redundant disk drives, two  
machines  
> > that switch over when one goes down?  Any ideas?
> I too would like to know if anyone is interested in these

NeXT sells insanely great operating environments and end-user machines,  
not fault tolerant servers.  You might consider buying a server from a  
company who's in business to make fault tolerant machines (e.g. Pyramid or  
Auspex) instead of trying to change, or add to,  NeXT's focus.

mikem
--
Michael J. Matlack
Anderson Financial Systems
Mike_Matlack@afs.com (NeXTmail is OK)

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