Xref: utzoo alt.next:164 comp.sys.next:4 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!pacbell!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: alt.next,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: optical disk? diskless? distribution? Message-ID: <24828@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 17 Oct 88 19:58:32 GMT References: Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 20 In article mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) writes: >2) Will there be a server available or does the NeXT have enough IO >bandwidth to handle a couple of FAST hd's? Yes this sound like I >want to turn it into a sun, but this could be a system adminstrators >nightmare. Either use the commodity NFS server (Sun, Pyramid, whatever) that you already have lying around; or string some Wren-N's on the SCSI port of a NeXT cube and configure your own NeXT server from one member of your cluster. The SCSI chip has a lot of steam (did I hear 4MB/s around here somewhere?) The question remains: What version of NFS does NeXT already have? Have they got diskless NFS booting? How soon will they have the automounter and all the other nifties in the version shipping with SunOS 4.0? Has Sun even started shipping source to their developer source licensees? -=- Zippy sez, --Bob Can I have an IMPULSE ITEM instead?