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As a kid I got to visit the (very conscious) Tandem competitor Stratus ... I think a family friend was working there. They had a competitive line of highly redu
by schoen 2y ago
As a kid I got to visit the (very conscious) Tandem competitor Stratus ... I think a family friend was working there. They had a competitive line of highly redundant and fault tolerant computers.
The person giving me the tour gave a demo by opening up an operating computer and pulling some components out of it. The computer logged the fact that the components were now missing, and blithely kept on computing. I found it pretty mind-blowing at the time!
As far as I know, Tandem could do more or less the same demo.
- sillywalk 2y agoI can't find the link, but I read a similar story about Tandem - removing parts in front of customers and it kept going. The funny bit was that it was configured to dial-up to the Global Support Center, when something went wrong, so after all of these hardware fail/component removed errors happened, a technician was sent over with replacement parts that weren't needed.