>Yes, I thin the old Sequent Numa-Q's were. As Quick-Draw McGraw would say, "I'll do the thinnin' around here, Baba Looey!"
Or am I showing my age? "The Church is near, but the road is icy. The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully." - old Hungarian Proverb Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph.D. Boeing VM Enterprise Servers 425-865-5940 -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Darbro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 11:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Why Zseries Yes, I thin the old Sequent Numa-Q's were. McKown, John wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >>Behalf Of John Campbell >>Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 10:26 AM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Fw: [LINUX-390] Why Zseries >> >> >>Stupid question: >> >> Does *anybody* build a fault-tolerant Intel machine? *Has* anyone >>built such a beastie? >> > > > I cannot say of my own, personal, experience. But I was told that the > Unisys ES7000 Intel servers are capable of "tolerating" an CPU failure. > The CPU becomes unusable and the work running on that CPU must be > recovered and restarted (I.e. it "abends" because there is no ACR like > on z/OS). I was futher told that Windows Datacenter Edition will mark > the CPU as unusable and no longer try to run work on it. However, the > CPU is not hot-repairable, so you run degraded until you can take an > outage to replace it. I was told similar things about memory and I/O > buses. > > Again, I cannot guarantee the accuracy of these statements. > > > -- > John McKown > Senior Systems Programmer > UICI Insurance Center > Information Technology > > This message (including any attachments) contains confidential > information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its' > content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you > should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, > copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action > based on it, is strictly prohibited. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
