From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Dec 29 17:56:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A9714C2A; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 17:56:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA08651; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:56:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA21612; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:56:13 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:56:13 -0700 Message-Id: <199912300156.SAA21612@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Parag Patel , Michael VanLoon , Graeme Tait , "Kenneth D. Merry" , Mike Smith , Lance Costanzo , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ECC RAM useless with FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <56376.946510322@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <60506.946510077@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> <56376.946510322@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >To answer my own question, I finally dug something up that hints at what > >NASA laptops have to go through: > > > >It looks like they have specially certified IBM Thinkpads, and the > >process is very thorough. > > It is probably the military version of the Thinkpads, I've seen them, > they are quite a bit more heavy than their civilian counterparts. To the best of my ability, IBM has no 'military' version. I speak for a bit of experience here, having been involved with 4 different military contracts involving the Army, Marines, and Navy using ThinkPads. We had roughly 400-600 of them actively in use at one time or the other, up to 1000 total units throughout the years, and IBM has no 'mil-spec' ThinkPad. The only laptop that is even close to mil-spec is made by Panasonic. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message