[HN Gopher] NonStop (Server Computers)
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       NonStop (Server Computers)
        
       Author : popcalc
       Score  : 3 points
       Date   : 2024-08-10 19:15 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | ricktdotorg wrote:
       | i was shown one of these Tandem always-on computer pairs in a
       | large comms closet in the Morgan Stanley office at Canary Wharf
       | in the mid-90s. it had something to do with the trans-atlantic
       | comms lines muxing. no-one really knew how long it had been there
       | other than "a long time". it's probably still there, humming
       | away.
        
         | sillywalk wrote:
         | They're still around under HPE, though they're not exactly
         | advertised. It moved from a proprietary
         | CPU->MIPS->Itanium->X86-64. When Compaq owned them I believe
         | there was a brief port to Alpha.
         | 
         | Interesting Systems. The primary/backup process-pairs
         | especially.
         | 
         | HP used to have an archive of the Tandem Technical Reports and
         | Systems Review, but it seems to be gone.
         | 
         | Bitsavers has some of the Tech Reports
         | 
         | https://bitsavers.org/pdf/tandem/technical_reports/
         | 
         | Archive.org has the Systems Review
         | 
         | https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22tandem-systems...
        
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