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From: jr@sun.uucp (John Reed)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Transaction Processing
Message-ID: <3371@sun.uucp>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 10:28:28 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 10:28:28 1986
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Keywords: transaction processing Unix

In article <1692@brl-smoke.ARPA> larry@jpl-vlsi.arpa writes:
>"Unix is terrible for transaction processing and DP processing by banks and 
>insurance companies."
>I've heard this before.  Why is this so?  And does putting a U**x on top
>an OS that does do good transaction processing solve the problem?  Would a 
>native Unix with a kernel optimized for TP fall down on program-development
>functions?

Tolerant Systems in San Jose has a Unix TP box ready to go.  Based on
4.2BSD Unix and multiple National Semi 32 bit CPUs.  Latest release is
fully fault tolerant and provides data integretity across a set of
distributed systems.  The kernel is called TX (Transaction Executive)
and it contains LOTS more than just 4.2.

Maybe somebody at Tolerant could post some more details?

<diclaimer - I used to work there and I am still holding my stock and hoping>

JR.
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