On 30 Oct 2007 at 17:28, jvdg at
sparcpark.net wrote:
The hardware's not too shabby, either. We once had
a Tandem engineer
over because one CPU on our (16-CPU) machine was constantly giving
errors. When he finally decided the best course of action was to
replace the CPU, he simply yanked it out. The machine kept running
like nothing happened. A new CPU was inserted and in the process
monitor you could literally see processes moving from their back-up
CPU's back to the newly installed one, which was their primary. All of
this without any of the programs running skipping a beat.
I remember seeing a demo of this hosted by Jimmy Treybig hisself.
"Go ahead--pull any wire". If not conclusive, it was at least
impressive.
Cheers,
Chuck