[rescue] The aesthetics of rescue

Wed Oct 2 02:33:20 CDT 2002

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:57:47PM -0700, Skeezics Boondoggle wrote:
> in six years of running filers, from the early faserver 1400 to an F330 we
> beat the hell out of an isp (25,000 users' homedirs + /var/mail!) to an
> F630 in an academic environment to the F7x0's (and soon a new F820) here

They sound quite nice.  I am looking forward to getting my Auspex
honker up and running.  I am waiting on the electrician to install the
proper plug.  Some people have banged on the Auspex for not being as
nice as the NetApps, but I think once it is up and running it will be
quite solid.

> so, never having had the budget for a big emc or ibm or hitachi high-end 
> array, and not having an mbus old enough to boot my ancient auspex :-) i 

What Auspex do you have?

> quick replies to some other recent threads:
> 
> first machine that made me go "wow!" was the perq workstation, ca 1979-80.  
> brownie points to anyone on rescue who has ever even heard of the perq...

Do you actually own a perq?  They were vector graphics based, weren't they?

> impact. :-)  but possibly the coolest, oddest thing was an *analog* gauge
> on the front of an old honeywell run by the portland public schools that
> we did (i am loathe to admit this in public) cobol programming on.  
> apparently that was the meter of "how busy the system is" - an analog
> perfmeter.  kewl.

I remember hearing about some NeXTStation users who hooked up to the
traces coming out of a Motorola 68040 CPU - apparently you can
determine how busy the chip is by reading voltage on two pins.

Cordially
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