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Did Nasdaq get rid of the hp/tandem nonstop backends then? I don't think they did. As of 2008 they were still running them. They might have windows frontends an
by cdibona 17y ago
Did Nasdaq get rid of the hp/tandem nonstop backends then? I don't think they did. As of 2008 they were still running them. They might have windows frontends and middle ware, though.
- aschobel 17y agoYou're right, I misspoke when I said "NASDAQ runs on Windows". The information dissemination system runs on Windows, the trading system run on Tandem. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1290967&cid=28572825 http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1290967&cid=285...
- cdibona 17y agoMy first job in the Silicon Valley was on the Himalayas doing QA. They were awesome machines. QA meant pulling drives and cpus in the middle of processing, browning out/cutting power, etc.. it was wonderfully destructive :-)