Aucbvax.2294 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works Wed Jul 15 08:16:36 1981 Re: Unfinished tasks, intra-office mail, and system death >From TJM@MIT-XX Wed Jul 15 08:15:09 1981 Perhaps with the price of harware dropping at the rate it has been, the TANDEM approach (duplicate processors, disk subsystems which "mirror" the data, etc.) might be a reasonable method to accomplish state saving. I don't see this right away, but it does provide another avenue to make sure that your desk doesn't wind up 'disappearing' because of an electrical spike or a loose cable. --ted ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.