From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <09bd8fb4cb88e5993113ab9a2db3c073@coraid.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Any one going to change to sata disks? From: Brantley Coile Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:36:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <99ac9a6ca8697cd3d82c19cf2f9a1d4e@quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 719d984c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 These were the days before switches and hubs, just yellow snake and $1,000 interface boards. This would have been 1986 or so. I was always frustrated that the ideas from the Labs never made it outside the building intact. The Blit turned into the DMD5620 with a $6,000 price tag in the days of $1,000 terminals, the 3B20 costs more than a VAX but ran slower, streams turned into STREAMS. It was like there was some sort of screw-it-up filter at Basking Ridge. Good ideas went in and bad products, bad marketing, bad pricing would emerge. But I guess that's just the down side of working for the phone company. The up side was all those resources to pursue really neat ideas in the first place. Bell Labs changed the world. A bunch. > wow! that's pricy. > > for 100k you could have had the same style solution in ethernet by buying > fancy routers, even in those days. > > wasn't one of the advantages of dk supposed to be that it was cheep to > implement? > > - erik > > On Fri Jun 30 09:32:39 CDT 2006, brantley@coraid.com wrote: >> >> Back in the mid 1980's I was going to try to get the company I worked >> for to use Datakit instead of Ethernet, but when I saw the $100K price >> tag, I gave up. >> >> It took a little while for hubs to be cheap enough to replace the yellow snake.