Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu!agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu!GAYNOR From: gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7.0 available from CompuServe Message-ID: <1991May16.125134.3073@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> Date: 16 May 91 12:51:34 GMT References: <674366668.4@blkcat.FidoNet> Sender: news@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu (Usenet news) Reply-To: gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio Cooperative Extension Service Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu In article <674366668.4@blkcat.FidoNet>, Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo) writes: > >CompuServe has a new mini-area: type "GO SYSTEM7" to access a >special high-capacity distribution system. The story behind this one is fun. According to my fiancee again (remember, she works for CI$?) the sheer number of people trying to get System 7 was such a load that not only was it dragging down the MACDEV forum where it resided, but it was dragging down all the other forums that resided on the same disk area and used the same processor (CI$ runs on bunch of networked DEC machines, with different forums using different disk areas and CPUs). So, they took MacDev down for a while (and got -tons- of phone calls while that was going on) and moved the System 7 images to their own disk area with their own processor. So, right now, there's a CPU (one of the smaller, older machines I guess, but still a DEC mini) dedicated to nothing but downloading System 7.0. Whew! And poor ftp.apple.com is trying it with just a IIx... --- Jim Gaynor - AgVAX System Manager - Academic Computing - Ohio State University VMS: UNIX: Disclaimer : All opinions expressed here are mine and only mine. So there! Witty Quote: "Think, think, think, think..." - Winnie-the-Pooh, Taoist Bear.