[rescue] Possible DYNIX system rescue (Sequent NUMA-Q 2000)

[Jochen Kunz]

On 2002.08.03 06:57 Gavin Hubbard wrote:

> Does anyone here have knowledge or experience with Sequent NUMA-Q 2000
> servers running DYNIX/ptx?
No. I only know the older SMP machines, that run the 4.2BSD based DYNIX.
DYNIX/ptx is SysV. 

> I've found a possible rescue on a 32-way
> Pentium Pro system (circa 1997) and 
Get it. Mega cool machine. You will have serious fun. 

> before yesterday I'd never even heard of Sequent.
They made big to very big SMP / NUMA iron. IBM bought Sequent some time
ago and /dev/null-ed it. Once the Unix-AG owned a S27 with 8 x
80386DX20. It cost about 910000,-DM (~1/2 M$) in 1989. Slow, poor IO
Perfomance, but _very_ funny to work with. 

> Is this an Intel MPS v1.4 compliant system? Is there a suitable COTS
> OS for this system, or is it completely bespoke?
The CPUs are the one and only Intelism in that machine. Sequent used
NS32k, [34]86 and all sorts of Pentiums to build their very own
machines. 
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tsch,
         Jochen

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