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From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] consterm
Date: Tue,  6 Nov 2007 22:48:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14ec7b180711062148w74f3236elb7c0529287f28002@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10711062129v12fc7afcgfd7da14060288f79@mail.gmail.com>

> (gets me 4 parallel interactive fdisk's on the four nodes md,d1,d2,d3
> -- it seems weird but worked wonderfully well. cpu is just not set up
> to do this type of thing, and neither would your consterm be).

we had a cpu that could talk to multiple nodes at the same time
(multiplex i/o) in 2002, i believe. as well as an 'rx' that did the
same thing. i'll dig through my fs, but chances are slim that i still
have it.

no idea why it didn't get much use. oh, wait, it was plan9-only :)


      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-07  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-06 18:08 Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-11-06 18:15 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-06 18:23 ` Tim Wiess
2007-11-06 19:40 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-11-06 20:00 ` Russ Cox
2007-11-06 21:43   ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-11-06 22:39     ` Uriel
2007-11-06 22:54       ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-11-06 23:35         ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-06 23:53           ` arisawa
2007-11-07  0:28           ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-11-07  3:51             ` matt
2007-11-07  3:55               ` matt
2007-11-07  5:29             ` ron minnich
2007-11-07  5:48               ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]

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