Ultrix for DECstations

Allison ajp166 at bellatlantic.net
Thu Nov 10 13:51:50 CST 2005


>
>Subject: Re: Ultrix for DECstations
>   From: Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
>   Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:45:08 +0000
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>Yup, and it's good to watch people's faces when they don't believe that such
>behaviour is possible. I also had some fun last week with someone who'd been
>'educated' in the ways of Windows 'clusters' - it took him several minutes
>to come to terms with a filesystem that was accessible by any machine in the
>cluster *at the same time* and one that was set up in minutes. He wanted to
>know why such a filesystem wasn't everywhere and I couldn't honestly answer
>him other than saying 'cost'.
>
>A 

That and MOP load were wonderful.  I've tried to do diskless client under
winders (95 through NT4/server) and no one can say how it's done but all 
said it could be.  Gah!

Who was it that had the signline of something like:  

Don't you wish you could buy now what DEC had then.

Allison



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