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by kjs3
3948 days ago
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I hear you, brother. I was doing time on Crays during the transition from COS (batch OS) to UniCOS (Unix based multiuser OS). We bitched about what a pain it was to do the coding and marshall the data on front end VAX/VMS machines, then submit it to the COS queue and wait for the results. Then we got to all share the same machine for everything, and we all went from "this should take about X time to run" to "fuck all if I know how long this is going to run". Minor nit...we found token ring degraded vastly better under load than ethernet. While 10Mb enet was faster bursting than 4Mb TR, the aggregate utilization for TR was better and more deterministic. Maybe your SNA folks were oversubscribing the ring. But, yeah, pretty much everything in the IBM ecosystem was 10x the cost of the emerging ethernet world and that pretty much doomed it. |
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