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From: haral@ttidcb.UUCP (Haral Tsitsivas)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: System Industries  "SIMACS"
Message-ID: <175@ttidcb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 14:13:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 14:13:13 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 01:48:04 EDT
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Reply-To: haral@ttidcb.UUCP (Haral Tsitsivas)
Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica
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Summary: 

I have had a System Industries salesman call on me last July about SIMACS,
and again about a month ago.  From what I hear they are in Beta test right
now, and expected to finish Beta test in late November.  It seems like
a great idea if it would work as advertised.  You could connect a controller 
with up to 8 VAXens (each 9920 controller has 8 drives) which allows you to
distribute load among your VAXes easier.  Of course you still have
a system disk on each VAX for booting and /.  I would like
a technical person from SI to confirm the release time though, since
timing information may be wrong with the sales force.

--Haral Tsitsivas, TTI, Santa Monica
  ...!{philabs, trwrb, randvax, vortex}!ttidca!haral