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NonStop? Originally from Tandem, then bought by .. Compaq? And then HP, now HPE. Not a mainframe, but designed and built for 100% uptime. They used to do de
by __d 4y ago
NonStop?
Originally from Tandem, then bought by .. Compaq? And then HP, now HPE.
Not a mainframe, but designed and built for 100% uptime. They used to do demos where you could open the cabinet and pull out boards at random, and it'd just keep going.
It migrated from custom hardware, to Itanium, to x86-64. It's a custom OS, but has a Unix-like layer on top for ease of porting stuff.