Hi I have been offline since soon after posting the original mail to this thread - please don't think I "posted and ran". Thanks to all who replied with suggestions (which I am looking into) as opposed to those of you (Amiga fans) who decided to hijack the thread without even having the decency to change the subject <g>
Paul mrgmhale wrote: >> Great stuff, lousy marketing. Hmm, that reminds me of something else... >> >> > > Yeah, me too. The HP 100vg Ethernet protocol. It does not depend on > Collision Detect & Resend technology, as it is totally collision free, and > even in a fully loaded LAN with up to 1,024 devices one could be assured of > no less than 98mps net throughput for network packets. Why did it die? FUD > and horrible marketing. Gawd, do not even get me started! I still use > 100vg as my LAN backbone, and have one client using it for nearly all of > their LAN/WAN topography - with excellent performance results. The only > reason we ever have to segment their LAN into various subnets is because we > run out of IP Addresses at times. Never for performance reasons. > > > Gil > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted Roche >> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 1:14 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: Looking for killer file finder >> >> >> On 6/5/07, Dan Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> But it also (if that's reason) had some advantages, you could as an >>> example make a bootable ramdisk so you needed only to load >>> systemfiles after a cold start. The ramdisk survived soft reboots so >>> the next time you could boot up entirely from memory - pretty slick :) >>> >> Oh, you don't need to sell me! I owned a couple, moonlighted at a job >> where I sold them part-time nights and weekends, worked with an Amiga >> User Group, and even wrote a couple of articles. Amiga DOS was >> superior to DOS and competitive with MacOS. There was even a UNIX >> port, at one point. >> >> Great stuff, lousy marketing. Hmm, that reminds me of something else... >> >> -- >> Ted Roche >> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC >> http://www.tedroche.com >> >> >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
