[96137] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Temkin)
Thu Apr 19 12:54:59 2007
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:52:40 -0700
In-Reply-To: <5DE76529-7EFD-4C97-B1F4-DF24BE1F4639@kumari.net>
From: "David Temkin" <dave@rightmedia.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of Warren Kumari
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:01 PM
> To: Robert E. Seastrom
> Cc: Leigh Porter; Jay Hennigan; Andre Oppermann; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007
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> On Apr 19, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
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> > With certain susceptible Sun CPUs which were popular during=20
> the last=20
> > sunspot maxima, this was actually demonstrably true (and=20
> acknowledged=20
> > by Sun), so don't laugh too hard.
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> Yup, Sandia National Labs made a radiation hardened Pentium=20
> and, as far as I remember, was working on a hardened SPARC --=20
> there was also some work done (AFAIR on PPC) whereby 3=20
> processors would run the same instructions and vote on the output...
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Thinking of perhaps Resilience? http://www.resilience.com/
God, those things were horrid before they realized that the business
model of assuming "The app will always be OK, the issue will be the
hardware" was completely misguided. I forget what the product was named
at the time, but I'll never forget what a piece of crap it was.
