[geeks] Interesting read

[Julius Sridhar]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:

> > I'd like to see someone walk up to a Sun, open the cabinet, pull out a
> > faulty memory board, put a working one in, have the system recompute the
> > contents without rebooting, and have it continue.  z/OS does that out of
> > the box.  Support for that kind of stuff in Linux is forthcoming
> > eventually.
>
> Did you watch the E15K system announcement?  They did this.

IBM Mainframes have been doing it for a long time.  As have Tandem (now
Compaq) NonStops.

Peace...  Sridhar