[HECnet] Attaching to hecnet

[Brian Hechinger]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 04:01:11PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:

Ah well, the irony of it all... But it's a good legacy of the   
engineering that 30 year old machines are still being used in production   
around the world.

That coupled with the fact that DEC did things 20-30 years ago that other
companies STILL don't do well.

Clustering comes to mind as one, but more specifically things like DSSI that
were very smart when it came to supporting clustering.

Also, being able to "log onto the CLI of your hard drive" ranks up there as
just plain cool. :-D

-brian
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