29 Aug
2006
29 Aug
'06
9:09 p.m.
On Aug 29, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
A serious question : Was the Pentium ever used in a
non-PC
compatible? I
know the 386 was -- there was a least one Sun that used it, and those
interesting Sequent multi-processor 386 machines. Anything similar
with
the Pentium? If so, (and if they're more than 10 years old or
whatever),
I think I could easily consider those to be classic computers.
FWIW Sequent kept their NUMA-Q series up-to-date through at least the
900 MHz Pentium III Xeon. Boeing still runs a few though IBM dropped
support for them and Dynix/ptx a couple years ago. They're on their
way out the door; having finally gotten rid of the last of their
Apollo DOMAIN systems has accelerated the process, as the NUMA-Qs
were mostly back-ending databases for applications running on the
Apollos.
There's a little bug gnawing at the back of my mind that there were
at least one or two other non-PC systems to use the Pentium, but I
can't think of what they might've been right offhand. I keep wanting
to say "Stratus" although the particular series I'm thinking of is
more rightly described as a non-PC platform for Windows NT, along the
same lines as the SGI Visual Workstation.
ok
bear