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- From: rrezaian@austral.chi.il.us (Russell Rezaian)
- Subject: Re: Interest in Clout.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.083910.19709@austral.chi.il.us>
- Organization: D.O.C. Data Processing Systems
- References: <1992Dec17.072409.5483@austral.chi.il.us> <9212235030@drktowr.chi.il.us>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 08:39:10 GMT
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- In article <9212235030@drktowr.chi.il.us> magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes:
- >Russell Rezaian (rrezaian@austral.chi.il.us) wrote:
- >: If anyone knows where we can find more drive space for one of the current
- >: clout nodes, it would be appreciated! We have been running VERY tight on
- >: space for some months now. Fortunatly we have been quite lucky and have
- >: not had our spool space get swamped all that often, but even once was too
- >: much, and it has happened more than once.
- >
- >What type of drive do you need? SCSI? MFM? I have a 40meg MFM I can put
- >on indefinite loan if it's useful. Not much, but it might help.
-
- SCSI. We might be able to make use of an MFM drive, but that would require
- the use of something like an Adaptec ACB-4000 board, and those are
- somewhat awkward...
-
- The particular clout machine currently most desperatly in need of space is
- a Sun workstation (without a VME bus, just SCSI) running on the ragged
- edge of drive space so SCSI is our only real option for space. We will
- also need some more space to get the development project underway, we can't
- possibly do it on the current machine, not only is there simply mot enough
- space, but we can't afford to risk the disruption that would result.
-
- >Er, for general interest, what type of development is going on right
- >now, and what areas are you looking for help in?
-
- Right now we are about to launch into the design of the next generation of
- our software. Mostly we are looking for people with experience in
- databases, mail, and distributed systems. Of course this sounds a LOT
- more impressive and complicated than it actually is, but then I have a
- slight tendency to hyperbole... :-)
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- Russell Rezaian | rrezaian@austral.chi.il.us
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