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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4
Message-ID: <19037@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 16 Feb 91 02:12:47 GMT
References: <9475@uwm.edu> <1991Feb12.210950.19547@sugar.hackercorp.com> <18944@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Feb14.172156.6910@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Feb14.172156.6910@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <18944@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:
>> Actually, you don't have to run your entire filesystem using telepathy.  
>> Instead, you can get nearly the performance just by running your
>> collision detection and retransmission delays via telepathy.  The
>> actual data can continue to travel the ethernet.
>
>That's pretty clever. What sort of crystals do you use for terminators?
>Do you need amethyst or jade, or will plain quartz do? Also, last time I
>tried this I used the pyramid configuration and the apex machine lost
>levitation during a power failure and we had a real system crash. I've
>heard that the pentagram configuration works, but has the side effect of
>turning all your files mode 0666. Sounds like a security hole to me.


Almost any type of crystal will do for termination; but if you use a type 
that has healing properties the packets are less damaged during the collisions,
and often recover soon after.

Most security holes can be plugged by proper use of the precognition
module.  If you are using a pentagonal configuration, I'd suggest
setting up proper security first.

(Security is really the only use I'e found of the precog module;
when I tried to use it for packet acknowledgement the replies kept
comining in before the packet was actually sent, which really
messed up my sequence numbering)

>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'


			andy
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