Path: utzoo!hoptoad!asylum!romkey
From: romkey@asylum.UUCP (John Romkey)
Newsgroups: alt.next
Subject: Re: Ethernet?
Message-ID: <960@asylum.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 15:32:39 GMT
References: <1100@vsi1.UUCP>
Reply-To: romkey@asylum.UUCP (John Romkey)
Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA
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In article <1100@vsi1.UUCP> lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes:
>Maybe I missed it in the press release that was posted, but I haven't seen
>any reference to ethernet connection (or any communication medium).

Apparently the system has a built-in thin ethernet port, and TCP/IP
and NFS.

>I'm also curious why anyone would want a 4 MIP machine with an 80 ms disk.
>Am I missing something obvious?

I *hope* they do some good disk caching with a chunk of the 8MB of
memory...
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