Further Reading

Hewlett-Packard has a number of papers on its website; start looking at the Tandem Technical reports at http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/. In particular:

Bartlett, Joel. “A NonStop Kernel,” June 1981. http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-81.4.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN. (Gives more information about the operating system environment.)
Bartlett, Joel, et al. “Fault tolerance in Tandem computer systems,” May 1990. http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-90.5.html. (Describes the hardware in more detail.)
Gray, Jim. “The cost of messages,” March 1988. http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-88.4.html. (Describes some of the performance issues from a theoretical point of view.)
Horst, Robert, and Tim Chou. “The hardware architecture and linear expansion of Tandem nonstop systems,” April 1985. http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-85.3.html.

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