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David DeLaney Almost. The plant was designed with hydrolic gates that were in a normal "closed" position ... IE-it the power went off, hydrolic pressure...
Dave Cartwright
the base pascal-vs implementation on vm used approx. 3090 processor getting 44kbytes-sec thruput.
i added rfc 1044 support to the base ... and in some tuning at cray research was getting sustained 1mbyte-sec between a 4341-clone and a cray ... using only modest amount of the 4341-clone cpu (around 25items the data rate for a small fraction of cpu).
misc. past posts mentioning adding rfc 1044 support to
slight drift ... my rfc index
other posts on high-speed data transport project
The New York Times had an article on the environmental hazards present in desktop PCs and the problems of disposing of old machines. See: One thing that bothered...
we were operating a high-speed backbone ... but were not allowed to actually bid on nsfnet1 (original internet backbone) ... however, we did get an technical audit by NSF that said what we had running was at least five years ahead of all nsfnet1 bid submissions.
i was asked to be the red team for nsfnet2 bid ... there were something like 20 people from seven labs around the world that were the blue team (although only the blue team proposal was actually allowed to be submitted). minor past refs: Internet?^ alpha award
you're starting to sound like your butt buddy richard kiwi. Christmas Gifts A young man wanted to purchase a gift for his...
part of old reference from 1988 (although not of the added rfc 1044 support)
breastLE IBM TCP-IP FOR VM (TM) RELEASE 1 MODIFICATION LEVEL 2 WITH ADDITIONAL FUNCTION AND NEW NETWORK FILE SYSTEM FEATURE
ABSTRACT IBM announces Transmission Control Protocol-Internet Protocol (TCP-IP) for VM (5798-FAL) Release 1 Modification Level 2. Release 1.2 contains functional enhancements and a new optional Network File System (NFS) (1) feature. VM systems with the NFS feature installed may act as a file server for AIX (TM) 2.2, UNIX (2) and other systems with the NFS 3.2 client function installed. Additional functional enhancements in Release 1.2 include: support for 9370 X.25 Communications Subsystem, X Window System (3) client function, the ability to use an SNA network to link two TCP-IP networks, and a remote end daemon (server).
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