Re: Hard Hat and Tandem.

[Cory Jon Hollingsworth <cory@real-time.com>]

Joan Eslinger wrote:

>  * > >     Tandem was a company situated in Texas that was in the business of
>
> Texas? Headquarters was Cupertino, California.
>

    Hey I said my history was bastardized.  If that is the only fact I got wrong I
feel quite happy.

>
>  * > > selling business servers.  At the time this box was purchased, Tandem was
>  * > > repackaging SGI hardware and selling them as Tandem servers.  Since then
>  * > > Tandem has been bought by Compaq, which I believe where more or less bought
>  * > > Tandem in order to acquire the brand name.  Currently I believe Compaq sells
>  * > > industrial computers under the Tandem name.  I do not think those machines
>  * > > have a MIPS chip set though.
>  * >
>  * > Tandem has a very interesting program of HA machines and software.  They
>  * > have more or less the only UNIX systems that guarantee like 99.99999%
>  * > availability.
>
> Tandem had 2 computer lines: the fault-tolorant Himalaya line running
> their own OS called Non-Stop built with MIPS CPUs, and the Integrity
> line which was OEM'ed SGI Challenge servers running IRIX.
>
> Looks like new Himalaya servers are built around Alpha CPUs.

    So I can confidently say I have a Challenge S with a Tandem cover.  The machine
was running IRIX prior to me acquiring it.