16 Apr
2001
16 Apr
'01
4:37 a.m.
To start with the switcher in question is 1987 design
maybe earlier.
The MV2000 was available in 87 or 88 if memory
serves. And even if I'm wrong it's very definatly pre1990.
Dec often used standardized designs for years despite technology.
Regarding you comment on rotating technology.. your wrong. The biggest
problem is that often the older technologies were kept available too long or
in service too long. Add to that usually
at least 50% of the rotating memory was not even DEC to start with. Look at the DEC
designed products.
Allison
Dick also neglects to understand the additional maintainability and
diagnostic features DEC added to the drives they built and the ones
added on via the DCL and RM adapter which gave them superior maintanability
and ease of diagnosis.
Just compare the TM03 or RP06 diags with those of their competitors
at the same time.
I'll take the DEC ones any day. Very few third party controllers
had half the maintainablily features of the DEC ones.
Emulex was probably the best all around emulating controllers.
Perkin-Elmer/Concurrent's 32 bit machines were on a diagnostic par
with very early PDP11's... or 8's.
Bill
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