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To: rudedog who wrote (70317)10/27/1999 11:29:00 AM
From: Windseye  Read Replies (1) of 97611
 
Rude,
<<Shifting to the Tandem Himalaya architecture would be a MAJOR re-write. I think that's why the cluster of Alpha machines running Unix was proposed...>>>

So the ambivalence regarding using CPQ equipment is that the true fault tolerant machinery offered by CPQ can only be used if they are willing to do a major rewrite. Then they get to compare Alpha systems reliability with IBM systems reliability--- whose got the best record, Dec systems or IBM or are they about equally reliable. As I recall IBM mainframes were fragile in the mid-70s... I had the sense that DEC equipment was more secure and more reliable, but have no experience with any of it.

Doug
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