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More 4GB Ultras in the field than we realized

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jul 27 16:53:05 2004

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:52:58 -0400
Message-Id: <200407272052.i6RKqwOL007235@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU, owls@MIT.EDU

When I previously did research into 4GB Ultras in the field, I picked
a bad threshold--I looked only for machines with exactly 4GB and
smaller disks, where 4.1GB was a common size.  So I found only the
Ultra 1s and 2s.

After Bill noted that my previous search must have missed the ECF
machines, I re-ran the numbers using a 4.2GB threshold and found that
there are substantially more Ultras with 4GB disks in the field than
we had thought.  I'll append a list of the 56 previously uncounted
machines at the end of this message, with moira contact information.

Based on Brian Murphy's information and some spot checks, I think all
of these machines are too old to be considered supported.  But Bill
thinks we may want to follow up with some of the machine owners to
make sure they understand the situation.

aa-ref-1                       aero-tech911
allegretto                     support-acs@mit.edu
amps-spare1                    stasik
archetype                      tfitz
archfile                       archhelp@mit.edu
baron-ochs                     sys-lib
barton-sun                     Paul Barton
bertie                         maier
blankschtein                   goldsipe@mit.edu
bluenose                       ocean-net@mit.edu
catamaran                      ocean-net@mit.edu
celeste                        sys-lib
ckcmachine                     Colton Clark
cuttyhunk                      wccf, nknouf
damask                         tfitz
dcl                            raeburn
divorce                        Harold Pakulat
dragons-lair                   tlyu
eecs-ath-10                    fletch1@eecs.mit.edu
eecs-ath-14                    eecs
eecs-ath-15                    eecs
eecs-ath-17                    eecs
eecs-ath-34                    eecs
gleason-sun                    Brett Groshong <norio@mit.edu>
gordon                         maier
h-p-lovecraft                  
indiana                        aurora
keelboat                       Carolyn Brooke
lang                           Karen Wolrath (karen@mit.edu)
lees2                          karen@mit.edu
lees3                          karen@mit.edu
libsys                         sys-lib
lingphil046.dlp                Christopher Naylor
matrix                         karen@mit.edu
mayon                          Yunpeng Wang
mcrae                          Brett Groshong <norio@mit.edu>
mei                            Pat Dixon
mein-fuhrer-ist-von-texas
mohr-sun                       John Wilhelmi
muck                           Pat Dixon
nevis-sun                      rutledge@MIT.EDU
pedagogue                      dryfoo
pelee                          Yunpeng Wang
rattail                        alg
rotch-ref-2                    rotch-tech911
schooner                       ocean-net@mit.edu
sloop                          Carolyn Brooke
sum-1.dlp                      Christopher Naylor
sum-2.dlp                      Christopher Naylor
sum-3.dlp                      Christopher Naylor
templib                        sys-lib
that-god-damned-bitch          
thomas                         maier
thornton                       karen
unzen                          Yunpeng Wang
x15-cruise-basselope           sipb-staff

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