Sequoia Computer Systems?

On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Jay West wrote: That's what I found in the Computer Review No. 1 from 1987, page 351: SEQUOIA SYSTEMS: SEQUOIA POWER: 50.0 MIPS INTRODUCED IN 1984, THE SEQUOIA SYSTEM PROVIDES FAULT-TOLERANCE FOR COMMERCIAL, ON-LINE TRANSACTION PROCESSING. REDUNDANT MC68010 PROCESSORS IN A TIGHTLY COUPLED ARCHITECTURE CAN BE CONFIGURED TO MINI-THROUGH LARGE MAINFRAME PER- FORMANCE. 2 TO 64 CPU'S, EACH USING 128K CACHE, 4MB MAIN MEMORY AND 1 OR 2 I/O PROCESSORS, MAY BE COMBINED MODULARLY. PROCESSORS ALL RUN A SINGLE COPY OF THE OS AND ARE CHECKED BY REDUNDANT COMPARATORS 10M TIMES/SEC. DUAL, SEGMENTED 40- BIT WIDE BUSES AND AUTOLOAD BALANCING OPTIMIZE THE UNIX-BASED SYSTEM FOR TRANS- ACTION MANAGEMENT.I/O CHANNEL PROCESSORS HAVE 512K MEMORY & FOUR 4KB BUFFERS EA. APPLICATIONS: BUSINESS COMPUTER PERIPHERALS WORD SIZE: 16/32 BITS REMOVABLE DISK: 300MB MEMORY: 4096 TO 262144KB FIXED DISK: 404/640mb MEMORY CYCLE TIME: 100NS FLEXIBLE DISK: CACHE MEMORY: 128KB MAGNETIC TAPE: 6250/1600 GCR I/O TRANSFER RATE: 80MB/SEC LINE PRINTER: 600 LPM USERS PER SYSTEM: 512 SERIAL PRINTER: VIRTUAL MEMORY: YES DISPLAY TERMINAL: ASCII FLOATING POINT: MULTIPLEXOR: MEMORY ERROR CORRECT: STD OTHER: 6250BPI GCR MAG TAPE DRIVE SYSTEMS SOFTWARE I/O COMMUNICATIONS * REAL TIME MNTR: TRM ASYNCHRONOUS: STD BATCH MONITOR BISYNCHRONOUS: STD * DATA BASE SYS: INGRES (RELATIONAL) DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS: OPERATING SYSTEM: UNIX V, UNIX 4.2B OTHER: IEEE-796 (MULTIBUS); RS232; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES MARKETING BASIC * PASCAL COMPUTER: * COBOL APL MAINTENANCE: * FORTRAN RPG MAIN MARKET: END USER OTHER: SYSTEM: $290000, 4096KB SYSTEM PRICE DESCRIPTION BASIC SYSTEM FEATURES 2 PROCESSING ELEMENTS, 2.5 MIPS, TWO 2MB MEMORY ELEMENTS, 2 I/O ELEMENTS, SYSTEM CABINET W/ DUAL SYSTEMS BUS SEGMENTS, PERIPHERAL CABINET W/ 2 MULTIBUSES, 404MB DISK, COMMUNICA. CONTROLLER, OPERATING SYS & C COMPILER. That's it... Christian