Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

Norman Levin wrote:
>
> Jose Pina Coelho wrote:
> >
> > Werner wrote:
> > > Here's another Microsoft "first" for you too, symbolic links!
> > >
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp
> >
> > This is shared /usr, a technology deployed by IBM on AIX 3.2
> > and abandoned because it was not practical nor robust.
> >
> *** really? IBM still supports diskless/dataless AIX workstations.
> They can only work with a shared /usr
> --
> Norman Levin

VMS has been doing this (sharing disk space amongst 96 machines) robustly for 15 years. Why is it so hard for everyone else to do it? Of course, VMS clusters are very expensive...

Ron

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