Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!hsdndev!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: DN10000 disk space [actually a DN/OSF-1 critque] Message-ID: <1990Dec11.182300.10616@alphalpha.com> Date: 11 Dec 90 18:23:00 GMT References: <90Dec6.172904est.57368@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1990Dec7.034301.29493@midway.uchicago.edu> <1990Dec8.165826.3094@alphalpha.com> Organization: asi Lines: 33 In article hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) writes: >In article <1990Dec8.165826.3094@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes: > > Apollo's are not multi-user machines. They were supposed to make > that obsolete too. > >Gee, wonder what we would have done if the sales critter who sold us >the machine had told us that ;-) No doubt that's why they didn't :-^. Seriously though, the same problem occured when people tried to load dozens of diskless nodes off of a single server. That configuration never got a lot of testing at Apollo, and in fact when the word came down that more machines had to be diskless people screamed bloody murder. Multiuser is even less likely. The ratio of machines-to-people in R&D when I left Apollo was probably close to two-to-one, and even the secretaries had nodes. Here's a total aside. Does anyone remember the original DPSS product? It included mail (both graphical and command line), a database program, a WYSIWYG text editor and (I think) a spreadsheet. All that before the Mac even existed. Somewhere I have a brochure for it (real pretty marketing material too, reminds me of Sun's stuff). This was integrated office software back in 1983. -kee -- Alphalpha Software, Inc. | motif-request@alphalpha.com nazgul@alphalpha.com |----------------------------------- 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | Proline BBS: 617/641-3722 I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.