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To: Chung Yang who wrote (7391)	1/28/1998 6:27:00 PM
From: Thomas Haegin	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 64865

Chung, thanks to you too for additional insight in the inner workings of the Starfire line. With these features I think that fault tolerance is pretty much driven to the max in these machines. No wonder they are a Hot Product. Is the Starfire the only one SUNW product line that have this advanced "split-machine" technology? How about their middle-range servers like the Enterprise series? Do these feature multi-processor capabilities also? How many procs max. can be installed in these? This is very interesting stuff indeed. I wonder how many people on WS know these critical technical things. Thomas

To: Chung Yang who wrote (7391)	1/28/1998 11:03:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

the good thing about this is that it applies to Sun Workstations as well as multimillion dollar Sun Servers - I recently moved to a Sun Sparcstation at work and my system administrator yelled at me for turning the system off while i was gone for a week since i had some minor configuration error messages i was clueless about since i mostly worked on PC's. Unix messages can be kind of confusing. Now i just keep it on for months and im always running after typing in my password - comparitively it takes forever to constantly boot my Win95 computer and start all the individual applications and if i leave it on overnight the system freezes - I can only hope that my bank uses Microsoft technology and one day i will wake up a Millionaire from a bank error. But hey, its good enough for the masses - as microsoft likes to remind us.