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Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)

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mech422 · 1790677607 · focus · HN ↗
I started working on Stratus machines right out of high school... They took me from backwoods New England to Wall St.
The were Awesome machines - don't let those filthy hobbitsis...err..tandem users cloud your judgement. Stratus was pure hardware FT, and tandem... wasn't :-P
Vos was pretty nice too - decent macro language - not all the utils you expect with a unix box, but in terms of the core OS and shell it was pretty good machine .. 40 years later I still love those machines and the career they helped get me into :-D
1. keiferwiseman · 1790682295 · focus · HN ↗
  Oh Tandem, you don’t hear that much anymore. They still have plenty of them still running banks and what not under the name HP non-stop.
  1. mech422 · 1790702098 · focus · HN ↗
    yeah - the big difference was Tandem was software (+ hardware) fault tolerant while Stratus was full hardware level fault tolerant. This gave Tandem a real price edge.
    Both were really popular with banks and brokerage houses (back when I worked with stratus at brokerages, HFT was just emerging and down time was umm... frowned upon :-D

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