From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sgi.com (sgi.SGI.COM [192.48.153.1]) by lara.stud.fh-heilbronn.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA14701 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:33:30 +0200 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id DAA04996; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 03:30:53 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id DAA23727 for linux-list; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 03:25:25 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from kilimanjaro.engr.sgi.com (kilimanjaro.engr.sgi.com [150.166.49.139]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id DAA77638 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 03:25:21 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@kilimanjaro.engr.sgi.com) Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by kilimanjaro.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id DAA71157; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 03:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id DAA57977; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 03:25:14 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (cory@real-time.com) Received: from paladin.real-time.com (paladin.real-time.com [206.10.252.2]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id DAA02898; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 03:25:13 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (cory@real-time.com) Received: from real-time.com (mondas.dalekchess.org [206.147.104.202]) by paladin.real-time.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA16186; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 05:25:12 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37BE7D80.20B8D36A@real-time.com> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 05:20:49 -0500 From: Cory Jon Hollingsworth X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.9 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joan Eslinger CC: linux@kilimanjaro.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Hard Hat and Tandem. References: <199908210155.SAA81529@kilimanjaro.engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.