home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.sys.atari.st:12432 comp.sys.atari.st.tech:4453
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!devnull!dunham
- From: dunham@mpd.tandem.com (Jerry Dunham)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Utterly bizarre idea for Atari
- Message-ID: <2254@devnull.mpd.tandem.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 19:25:24 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.043618.17054@news.csuohio.edu>
- Sender: news@devnull.mpd.tandem.com
- Reply-To: dunham_jerry@tandem.com (Jerry Dunham)
- Followup-To: comp.sys.atari.st
- Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
- Lines: 26
-
- In article <1992Aug15.043618.17054@news.csuohio.edu> max@madnick.cba.csuohio.edu (Max Polk) writes:
- >This is an utterly bizarre idea.
-
- Nope.
-
- >Here it is in a nutshell: a parallel processing Atari microcomputer
- >featuring a set of 68000 microprocessors, sold at low cost yet
- >featuring high technology.
- >
- >It's about time that someone tries this out in one form or another
- >for reasonably-priced small computers, and Atari could pull it off.
-
- This sounds amazingly like an Atari-sized version of the Tandem T16 NonStop
- architecture that has taken Tandem Computers to a dominant position in fault
- tolerant computers and transaction processing. This would NOT be a trivial
- development effort, but WOULD result in a potentially killer machine. It
- would NOT fall into the price range wherein Atari has traditionally been rea-
- sonably successful. I would certainly like to see it happen. So who's going
- to tell Sam T.?
-
-
- --
- Jerry Dunham dunham_jerry@tandem.com
- Tandem Computers, Inc. dunham@mpd.tandem.com
- Austin, TX (512)244-8598
- This opinion intentionally left blank.
-