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From: martelli@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: SNAKE CLUSTER(?)
Message-ID: <863@cadlab.sublink.ORG>
Date: 22 May 91 17:32:17 GMT
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perry@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Perry Scott) writes:
:Given there is a non-zero cost for implementing and supporting these
:features, are you willing to pay more for an HP system with partitions on it?

Let's put it this other way instead: I am willing to buy other workstations,
although they are less powerful or nice, rather than HP 9000/700, because HP
has not seen fit to allow me to partition my disks.
This is a strictly personal technical judgment, expressed by me, not by
the firm I work for; however, my opinion carries some weight here, so we
are probably going to buy from DEC or Soulbourne (this is not a hypothetical
situation - we are indeed about to buy some).
The tradeoff is similar to Sun's prohibition of more than 4 disks on a SCSI
port (4 disks, 2 tapes, 1 CDROM, rather than any 7 SCSI devices), which is
THE reason Sun is not going to be the supplier I recommend.

How much more would it cost, per HP 9000/750, to have the disk partitioning
ability of all other Unix systems - 0.1%?
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