From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 30 16:30:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.inx.de (www.inx.de [195.21.255.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4686714E5A for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 16:30:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jnickelsen@acm.org) Received: from n37-15.berlin.snafu.de ([195.21.37.15] helo=goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de) by www.inx.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10oF28-0005U8-00; Mon, 31 May 1999 01:30:25 +0200 Received: from ockholm.jn.berlin.snafu.de (ockholm.jn.berlin.snafu.de [10.0.0.3]) by goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1ABE0; Mon, 31 May 1999 00:32:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 00:32:16 +0200 From: Juergen Nickelsen To: Alex Heiphetz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 100% dependability/failsafe/security/hardware Message-ID: <567978.3137099536@ockholm.jn.berlin.snafu.de> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990526100019.00920c20@cvzoom.net> Originator-Info: login-id=nickel; server=goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de X-Mailer: Mulberry (MacOS) [1.4.2.1, s/n U-301240] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On Mit, 26. Mai 1999 10:00 -0400 Alex Heiphetz wrote: > Juergen Nickelsen in his first post mentioned that FreeBSD > won't run on that fantastic computer in the weather center. > What do they run? I have experience with SCO, HP-UX, Sun and > Linux :-) and I won't say that any of those is more robust or secure > than FreeBSD (given equal hardware "horsepower"). If I remember correctly, it was a custom operating system with some degree of compatibility to HP-UX (the system had PA-RISC CPUs) and could run program binaries developed on HP-UX. With respect to the hardware horsepower, this machine (taken into service April 1996) was equivalent to a HP 9000/712 in raw CPU speed. [All this knowledge is from end of 1996, so things may have changed there.] You can look around at Stratus's web site , but I don't which type the machine was I described. Greetings, Juergen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message