Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 11:19:22 -0500 (EST) From: <up@3.am> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ECC RAM useless with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912301113120.63020-100000@richard2.pil.net> In-Reply-To: <59549.946568825@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Anyone remember the "Grid Tempest" ? > > > >I don't consider it a laptop, and it pre-dates the Thinkpads. We (SRI) > >owned one of the original thinkpads made (it's sitting around here > >somewhere), which was bought in preperation for a military contract. > > Why wouldn't the tempest be a laptop ? It most surely were on. I'd say it was probably the first laptop, as portable PC's were a helluva lot bigger before then. IIRC, though, it didn't have a disk drive, but bubble memory, and alot of other functional compromises, but still, IMHO, ahead of its time. BTW, "Tempest" was not a Grid or any other brand name, but a spec for electronically secure DP equipment, and it wasn't a Mil-spec, is was an NSA spec (I wanna say NACSIM-5100A, but it's been about 15 years). There was a Mil-spec as well, and the grid met that by being both rugged and having no moving parts. Tempest versions of anything tended to cost 2-5X what the non-tempest did. James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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