• frezik@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    Yes. Server boot times are long. Enterprise level NICs and hard drive controllers do a lot of checking at startup.

    Historically, there were Sun servers that could hot swap CPUs. X86 can’t do that, though.

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      5 months ago

      Many that weren’t based on x86 microcompters could do this: Tandem, I mean, Compaq, I mean HP NonStop machines, Sun Ultra Enterprise as you mentioned, IBM s390 and System-Z, several HPUX systems, I’m sure there’s others.