From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Dec 30 8:19:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0EACD15395 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 08:19:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: (qmail 63638 invoked by uid 1825); 30 Dec 1999 16:19:22 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Dec 1999 16:19:22 -0000 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 11:19:22 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ECC RAM useless with FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <59549.946568825@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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