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From: dennis@PUMPKIN-PATCH.NOSC.MIL (Dennis Cottel)
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Subject: Re: what to do with "old" hardware
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Date: 26 Apr 89 21:17:58 GMT
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Vince Skahan, in his handy summary, comments:

> I would greatly appreciate it if Apollo can try to consider their
> large installed customer base and give us a few ideas with what we CAN
> use a 2 MB DSP80 for under SR10.  I'm not asking them to buy it back,
> just give me their considered technical opinion regarding what we can
> do with a system with a 442 MB disk but only 2 or 3 MB of memory.
> Right now, it's supposed to be a file server and under SR10 I'm
> concerned that it might not be able to just serve as a TCP gateway and
> run a parallel printer.

I have the same concern with our DSP80A with 2 500 Mbyte disks.  How
about a stripped down version of the SR10 operating system that could
only be run as a file server?  Surely there are lots of things that
could be left out -- rip out everything except what it takes to talk
over the network and know about the SR10 file system.

I know this is more work for Apollo (yet another product to support,
more documentation), but really! how am I to justify to my management
that this $50K investment should be junked -- not because the hardware
is not working as well as it ever did, but because the vendor decided
not to worry about it any more when updating (enlarging) their
software!

	Dennis Cottel  Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA  92152
	(619) 553-1645      dennis@nosc.MIL      sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis