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Date:      Thu, 30 Dec 1999 10:04:38 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>, Michael VanLoon <MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM>, Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com>, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Lance Costanzo <lance@costanzo.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ECC RAM useless with FreeBSD? 
Message-ID:  <57849.946544678@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:56:13 MST." <199912300156.SAA21612@mt.sri.com> 

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In message <199912300156.SAA21612@mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes:
>> >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 said military version, I didn't say mil-spec.

>The only laptop that is even close to mil-spec is made by Panasonic.

Anyone remember the "Grid Tempest" ?

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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