[rescue] quad 486

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:

> > Sequent's UNIX was Dynix.
>
> Minor nit:
>
> Sequent's UNIX was DYNIX/ptx. IBM recently announced EOSL for DYNIX/ptx
> and the last of the NUMA-Q hardware.
>
> Dynix is a company that produces software for library information
> systems. Electronic card catalog, library automation... stuff like that.

I stand corrected.

> Internal factions at the current daily grind are battling over whether
> we'll replace our NUMA-Qs with Regatta, or Superdome, and whether it'll
> happen now or in 2005. I'm personally pushing for the p690, because
> HP-UX is a major pile of excrement. And also because they axed the UE10k
> at Amazon.com in favor of a Superdome (for non-technical reasons) and my
> job went with it. According to my spies who are still there, the
> superdome crashed and burned and left the site down for two days, after
> which HP couldn't apologize enough... which Amazon deftly leveraged into
> what amounted to a free conversion of their core infrastructure to
> linux. Nice.

Regatta's kick all manner of ass.

What architecture/hardware brand for Linux?

Peace...  Sridhar