RE: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007

["David Temkin" <dave () rightmedia com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On 
> 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:
>
> > With certain susceptible Sun CPUs which were popular during 
> the last 
> > sunspot maxima, this was actually demonstrably true (and 
> acknowledged 
> > by Sun), so don't laugh too hard.
>
> Yup, Sandia National Labs made a radiation hardened Pentium 
> and, as far as I remember, was working on a hardened SPARC -- 
> there was also some work done (AFAIR on PPC) whereby 3 
> processors would run the same instructions and vote on the output...


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.