7 Jan
1999
7 Jan
'99
4:54 p.m.
At 09:26 PM 07-01-99 -0600, Paul Thompson wrote:
It booted from 5 1/4 floppies (at least mine did) and
ran a OS dedicated
to serving disks to the VAX cluster. Like a larger/higher bandwith
multiple device version of DEC's DSSI disks.
Well actually the DSSI disks are the slower cheaper nastier version of the
HSC type disk controller. HSCs are no longer current hardware but the HSJ
replacements really know how to get data to and from SCSI disk in a real
hurry.
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