[rescue] Re: Wang Machines

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

OK, ok... when dealing with packets and WANG's one must now a few things
before connecting the WANG to the network.

When networked, sometimes Wangs operate inside Firewalls that prevent
packets from entering the network in case our system has to interact with
other non-wang (i.e. 3rd party) systems (although want to wang
communication is also possible, albeit non  desirable, unless we are
dealing with a homogeneous wang network using a sender/receiver approach). 

Firewalling is done in order to prevent the wang system to be infected by
malitious virii that might be present in the network. The firewall is also
used to prevent the packets generated by the wang to reach possible 
listening ports operating in the 3rd party system(s) that are present
in the network. When reading the wang packets these ports might spawn
undesired child processes in the 3rd party system(s).

I still wonder why WANG went out of business..... I would imagine the
competition among datacenters around the world for owning the largest WANG
setup. But maybe it was the fact that unlike micro's of the time, people
did not understand why WANG's systems were getting smaller and faster... 


> Uptime is good, but what's really important is just how capably your
> Wang can push packets through the pipe it's used on.  If you have a Wang
> that can't transmit its data, it's effectively cut off and useless.
> It's important to make sure your Wang is doing its job without losing
> too many packets, and is up just as often as it needs to be.  It's also
> important to keep the latency down, because you don't want your Wang's
> packets to get through the pipe after it's lost relevance.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org] On
> Behalf Of Chris Kennedy
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:49 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [rescue] Re: Wang Machines
> 
> Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
> > Remember...it's not the size of the Wang, it's the processing power
> > inside!
> 
> I've always been told that 'uptime' was the important metric...
> 
> --
> Chris Kennedy
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