Re: redundancy

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"How fun to instantly have 3,900 servers go down when the mainframe breaks down! Day off everybody..."

Errr, you don't seem to get what a Mainframe is about, do you?

Your System Z Fridge automatically dials support when a component fails (and a spare has taken up its job).

Then 1 or 2 days later you get a call from reception saying "IBM bloke arrived" and you're like "duh, we were waiting for an IBM bloke?"

You never even *knew* one of the components failed because the Mainframe stayed up, as it should.

Then the technician changes the component, be it a processor, a card or whatever, without powering the machine down.

Ever tried that on, I don't know, any other system at all?

Hot swappable CPUs? Not anytime soon on other machines...