Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcb!haral 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 Article-I.D.: ttidcb.175 Posted: Thu Oct 18 14:13:13 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 01:48:04 EDT References: <736@milo.UUCP> <11300002@uicsl.UUCP> Reply-To: haral@ttidcb.UUCP (Haral Tsitsivas) Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica Lines: 12 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