From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 23:51:26 +0100
From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: General questions...
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>>	2.  Will the sparc10 cpu server code be able to make use of
>>		multiple processors on my Sparc20? (say adding another
>>		60Mhz SuperSparc..?)

not as it stands: the ss10 mmu.c is based on my mmu.c for the lx/classic,
which in turn was based on a mixture of the next and ss mmu.c files.
it lacks interlocks, at least.  a better approach on a multiprocessor might be to
adopt the strategy of power/mmu.c and chm/mmu.c: they use a stunningly elegant
distributed garbage collection algorithm (and very little code)
to manage a collection of virtual contexts across the TLBs of a multiprocessor.

>>	3.  Are there any commercial SCSI Worm devices in a "reasonable"
>>		price range that I could use on the pentium fileserver?
>>		I don't think I can afford the 350GB sony that att uses,
>>		but I dont need 350 gigs anyways....

HP had some jukeboxes that seemed promising (a reasonable amount of storage
without a huge price tag), but are probably still a little expensive for home use.
then again, if you're considering FDDI you might be able to afford them.
i've read that HP has pulled out of the disc business, but i'd be surprised if that
included WORMS.

you'll probably need to change the file server code slightly to support something
other than the Sonys.