[rescue] Filesystem choice for fileserver?
Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com
Thu Apr 24 22:41:40 CDT 2008
On Apr 19, 2008, at 18:35 , Carl R. Friend wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
>> Has anyone actually done a CPU in hardware?
>
> I know that this was intended in a humourous vein, but give
> the MUNIAC a look -- a modern 12-bit machine done with vacuum
> tubes.
>
> Really -- there was life before microcode and firmware. Oh, and
> ECC, too, which can be applied to disks if one wants to expend the
> energy.
Very true... although I remember in college we used to have lively
debates about exactly where you draw the line.
Technically speaking an ALU made up of tubes is still instructions,
they are just non-flexible... :)
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Shannon Hendrix
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