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From: jec@nesac2.UUCP (John Carter ATLN SADM)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Summary: still not a PC
Message-ID: <1279@nesac2.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 88 00:29:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: nesac2.1279
References: <916@viscous> <1086@bucket.UUCP> <23134@amdcad.AMD.COM> <5529@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Organization: A.T.&T. Lisle, Ill.
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In article <5529@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>, ehr@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Ernest H. Robl) writes:
> In article <4041@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>, toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
>  ... [information about old systems being able to save
] programs in core when power failed and being able to
] restart those programs when power is restored] ...
] ] I'd sure like to see systems do that these days!  (Especially a *NIX system!).
]  ... [additional text deleted] ...
] ] Tom Almy
] 
] Actually, Tandem systems, as part of their fault-tolerant
] architecture, have battery protection of RAM as a standard
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
] feature.  After power interurruptions of up to numbers
] of hours, the system resumes right where it was when
] the power went off.  You do have to reset the system
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
] clock, since no processing takes place while the power
  ^^^^^
] is off.
]  -- Ernest
] 
	     Battery backed RAM, but.............
No battery backed clock chip and crystal oscillator to keep time?
Somehow I picture a site needing a "fault-tolerant" system as being a site
that's probably also concerned with having things done at very specific times.
-- 
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