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Re: High Availability for NeXTs

#903
From: carsten
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:37
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In article <1992Oct14.160708.462@afs.com> mikem@afs.com (Mike Matlack)  
writes:
>  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)

Right. At least mirroring of machines does not make much sense, if someone  
is working directly at it. And who would want a NeXT to stand alone in a  
corner?

Carsten
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