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From: Nigel Gamble <nigel@nrg.org>
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To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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Subject: Re: SMP/cc Cluster description [was Linux/Pro]
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On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Seriously, I went through this at SGI, that's exactly what they did, and it
> was a huge mistake and it never worked.

In what sense do you think it "never worked"?  It worked for a huge
range of systems and applications.

But then, you left SGI before the process was really finished didn't
you?  (IRIX 6.5 was the first release that had all the pieces fully in
place.)

Nigel Gamble                                    nigel@nrg.org
Mountain View, CA, USA.                         http://www.nrg.org/

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