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In the 90s, perhaps not massively, but gaining ground very early in the 00s. I started my career in 2000 and most of the credit-card related stuff I built until
by Nursie 7mo ago
In the 90s, perhaps not massively, but gaining ground very early in the 00s. I started my career in 2000 and most of the credit-card related stuff I built until ‘05 was targeted at Windows, Linux and Solaris, with a variety of other Unix platforms depending on the client/project.
But the x86 I was referring to in my comment above, Stratus, was (maybe still is?) an exotic attempt to enter the mainframe-reliability space with windows. IIRC it effectively ran two redundant x86 machines in lockstep, keeping them in sync somehow, so that if hardware on one died the other could continue. I have no idea how big their market was, but I know of at least one acquirer/issuer credit card system that ran on that hardware around 2002-3.
- nineteen999 7mo agoStratus VOS ran on a bunch of non-x86 hardware, i860, PA-RISC, 68000. It wasn't Windows (UNIX admin with a modicum of Stratus VOS experience in production, back in the day).
- Nursie 7mo agoIt seems I encountered the “ftServer” line, which on closer inspection launched in 2001, and was indeed intel/windows 2k, based around Pentium III Xeon Chips. They still list old product sheets here, the oldest being the ftServer 5200 AFAICT - https://www.stratus.com/solutions/previous-generation-products/ https://www.stratus.com/solutions/previous-generation-produc... https://www.stratus.com/assets/5200hw.pdf https://www.stratus.com/assets/5200hw.pdf