[rescue] Tandem badged Indigo2

James Sharp jsharp at psychoses.org
Fri Mar 29 09:08:18 CST 2002


> wasn't *ALL* of Tandem's gear just rebadged SGI hardware?  or at least a large
> portion of their machines were.  and NonStop-OS was just a bunch of HA gunk
> on top or IRIX.
>
> or have i been smoking crack again?  it *has* been almost 10 years since i've
> even thought about Tandem gear. :)

You're on crack and you're not sharing..  Guardian90/NonStop-OS had
nothing to do with Irix.  The Himalaya and Cyclone series of machines used
a proprietary microcode-based processor and a really fuckin' fast
proprietary interconnection bus.



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