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Maury Markowitz

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May 11, 2003, 11:51:21 AM5/11/03
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I'm writing an article on Sequent for the wikipedia, but I can't seem to
find much about their history on the 'net. Can anyone help?

Maury


JP

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May 12, 2003, 6:27:51 AM5/12/03
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"Maury Markowitz" <maury@remove_this.sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote in message
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> I'm writing an article on Sequent for the wikipedia, but I can't seem to
> find much about their history on the 'net. Can anyone help?
>

I've not got a lot but found the following in and *old* training manual.

1984 - Balance system 8000 and 21000
Used National Semiconductor procs
Ran DYNIX (DYnamix uNIX), a multi processing version of Berkeley UNIX
Used in scientific and teccy markets

1987 - Symmetry
Based on Intel procs
Introduced copyback cache and 64bit bus
supported 2 to 24 procs
used in commercial markets

1991 - Symmetry 2000
monoprocessor and new, low end, 2-6 processor systems
SCSI disk IO

1992 - Symmetry 2000/x50
VME Bus
improved IO
Faster CPU's

1993 - Symmetry 2000/x90 & ptx/Clusters
Clustered systems for higher performance
faster cpu's

Winserver NT - Runs Windows NT OS

1994 - Symmetry 5000 SE20/60/90
Faster system bus
66mhz pentium cpus
2-30 procs

1995 - Symmetry 5000 SE30/70/100
100mhz pentium cpus

1996 - Symmetry 5000 SE40/80/120
166mhz pentium cpus
error correcting circuitry on proc board

1996 - STiNG
Completely new NUMA architecture

the document kinda ends there, the company followed in about 1999/2000

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Maury Markowitz

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May 12, 2003, 7:37:02 PM5/12/03
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Thanks for the details JP. One question if I may, what was NUMA-Q? Was it...

> Winserver NT - Runs Windows NT OS

... or ...

> 1996 - STiNG
> Completely new NUMA architecture

Maury


JP

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May 13, 2003, 6:46:40 AM5/13/03
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"Maury Markowitz" <maury@remove_this.sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote in message
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1996 - STiNG was the original name for the NUMA-Q platform, they had loads
of semi "cute" wasps as marketing toys etc at the time.

Winserver NT ran on S5000 requiring a VGA card and a floptical drive.

HTH

JP

Maury Markowitz

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May 13, 2003, 8:11:24 AM5/13/03
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"JP" <ft0...@h.o.t.m.a.i.l.c.o.m> wrote in message
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> 1996 - STiNG was the original name for the NUMA-Q platform, they had loads
> of semi "cute" wasps as marketing toys etc at the time.
>
> Winserver NT ran on S5000 requiring a VGA card and a floptical drive.

Great, thanks. If you're interested in the result...

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems

Maury


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