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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•3 months agoYes. 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•3 months agoMany 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.
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.
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.