17 Feb
1998
17 Feb
'98
4:09 p.m.
Quoth Mark Richards:
We have a Netapp 450 (the 486 EISA-based machine). NetApp will soon discontinue support for the machine and I'm curious as to what others think of this.
I think it is unfortunate. We have Suns that are six years old that run Solaris 2.6. There is probably an economy of scale for Sun that NetApp may not have, though. If NetApp wants to prematurely retire a hardware platform, they ought to at least do it by buying-out the installed hardware.
Regards,
David K. Drum david@more.net
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It's hard to be bored when you're as stupid as a line. [1]
Reality has a tendency to be so uncomfortably real. [2]
You can only measure the size of your head from the inside. [3]
When you proceed deliberately, mistakes don't cascade, they instruct. [4]
[1] Vernor Vinge [2] Neil Peart [3] Larry Wall [4] Stewart Brand