Bill Donnelly? ================== He occasionally gave executive briefings, and I saw him once at a GUIDE or SHARE meeting. A sharp dude who knew his stuff. But he also categorically stated that what the StorageTek guys were trying to do with Iceberg was impossible. Paraphrasing: "Believe me, there are big problems with that technology, *hard* problems, that they can't overcome." ==================
Depending on when he was speaking, he may have been right. The "Iceberg" that shipped bore almost no resemblance to the one StorageTek had preannounced just over two years before. Somewhere in my offline archive I have the article, from Cumptergram in 1987. That had been a pure controller - no on-board DASD and there were serious doubts about the bandwidth of its disk attachment. And yes, there were several instances of massive data loss in the UK. I also know of one German company that returned several systems. We really are a long way from seeing this technology in classic processors. Small, custom chips for very high bandwidth communication applications first. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
