[15024] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTU of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Malcolm)
Thu Feb 5 13:08:26 1998
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:28:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Joseph Malcolm <jmalcolm@uraeus.com>
To: David Bowie <dbowie@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <34D9D371.1830@bbnplanet.com>
David Bowie writes:
>Pardon my ruffled feathers, but IMHO this is not so! The Butterfly was
>a fine example of a massively parallel computer. It was, unfortunately,
>seldom deployed with the full complement of 128 processors.
>
>The only problem with the architecture was the "flexible-bus" technology
>which made maintenance a bit unweildy.
>
>BTW - I believe that the C/30 probably has the best uptime record of any
>packet processor. Many are documented as up 100% for years.
Well, perhaps they should have a) chosen a different front end, and b)
provided better cooling. The one at FIX-East sat there for years,
cooking, with the Mac on top cooking with it. Gee, wonder why the Mac
would space out every so often?
