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Article #619860Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book
From: Anne Lynn Wheeler
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:31
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:31
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Freddy <freddy1X@indyX.netX> writes: > In the movie "2001 a space odysey" HAL 'detected' that a radio was > about to fail... I am sure that Watson will be much better. another HAL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Computer_Systems The company produced multiple generations of computers based on microprocessors they had designed to the 64-bit SPARC V9 specification. Their processor design, known as SPARC64, combined out-of-order execution with mainframe-style reliability, availability and serviceability features. SPARC64 beat out Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC I by a few months to be the first SPARC V9 microprocessor produced. ... snip ... in the early 90s, I could drop by ... 10yrs earlier I had reported directly to him ... somewhat as punishment for being blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network (folklore is that when corporate executive comittee was told about it, 5of6 wanted to fire me) ... I had to report to him in YKT (on the east coast) but continued to live in San Jose and kept a few offices in san jose area IBM bldgs. originally supposedly it was for H & L ... where "L" was a SUN executive ... SUN threatened to sue and he dropped out. posts mentioning online computer conferencing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc posts mentioning internal network http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
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