On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 04:32:34PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > On 27/07/2015 16:25, Glen Barber wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 04:14:54PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > >> On 27/07/2015 04:39, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > >>> * Separated email services (and single-point-of-failure cases) from > >>> the machine that has been handling this task for over 18 years, to > >>> new, single-purpose service installations > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> This sort of sounds like the system that a former company (IAE) donated > >> to Jordan when he was here in Arnhem at a FreeBSD meeting organized by > >> Wilco Bulte. I think it was called freefall?? > >> There used to be pictures of the meeting online, but I can't seem to > >> find them. > >> > >> Would be nice to know if that is the case, because then I'm really > >> impressed with the life time of that system... > >> Does anybody know if this is actually the case? > >> > > > > Based on what I've recently learned of the machine's history, it was > > originally freefall, then became known as 'hub'. > > You have any idea what is/was actual the hardware that was in the box? > > If I remember correctly we gave Jordan a check for like 5000 guilders. > Which I guess would be 2500 us$ at that time. Which was not an enormous > amount of money, so even more impressive that the system lasted 18 years :) > The physical hardware did not last this long, and I do not recall the physical specs of the recently deprecated hardware, but as far as "handling this task for 18 years", that could have been clarified a bit more (my fault). The system moved chassis several times, but was never reinstalled (as far as we can tell) - it was originally a FreeBSD 2-STABLE install, and was upgraded constantly throughout its lifetime, and finally ran 11-CURRENT before being decommissioned. Glen
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