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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Message-ID: <43@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 88 21:33:42 GMT
References: <916@viscous> <1086@bucket.UUCP> <23134@amdcad.AMD.COM> <5529@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <1279@nesac2.UUCP>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
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In article <1279@nesac2.UUCP> jec@nesac2.UUCP (John Carter ATLN SADM) writes:

|] 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.

|	     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.

Perhaps they are concerned with getting accurate numbers for the long
running benchmark they were running when the power went away?  :-)

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