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Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Following Bruce's talk was some people from tandem (corresponding to Jim > having left research for tandem). Two things mentioned in that > time-frame was Jim defining the TPF thruput (ACP having been renamed TPF > as more non-airlines started using it for transactions) as a transaction > objective for Tandem systems. The other was the study showing that > hardware was becoming significantly more reliable and other factors were > increasingly becoming source of outages (planned, human mistakes, > disturbances in localized geographical area). re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#16 We're losing the battle old ACP/TPF related email from the period http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#email800325 in this post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#39 American Airlines giving some numbers for 120 transaction/second TPF system ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
