Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!m2c!jjmhome!cloud9!jon
From: jon@cloud9.UUCP (Jonathan Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Info wanted about "Stratos" !! (In English)
Message-ID: <1340@cloud9.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 88 04:03:16 GMT
References: <3790@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., Marlboro, MA
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In article <3790@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>, jans@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman) writes:
> ... and IBM owns a large chunk (all) of Stratus.  Their scheme employs 
> 


IBM owns none of Stratus they simply OEM  our computers.  (as does Olivetti)
> I used to work for the competition (Tandem).  Tandem uses a software/hardware 
> approach to fault-tolerance, that provides a performance increase through 
> large-grained distributed processing when all processors are healthy.


Tandem does not gain performance through distributed processing but rather
pays the penalty for distributed processing for all processing.  The result
is linear growth as proccessors are added but at a penalty to non-distributed 
applications.

	Jonathan Stern -- Stratus Computer harvard!anvil!es!Jonathan_Stern