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From: ehrice@his.com (Edward Rice)
Subject: Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software
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In article <3F620703.9080804@attbi.com>,
"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com> wrote:

 > any particular hardware.  You could, and many sites did, upgrade the 
 > hardware, replacing all of it without ever shutting the site down.

Can you actually point to any site that re-cabled a processor or IOM or SCU
without powering down the system, Robert?  At AFDSC, we did about as much
dynamic reconfiguration (and upgrading) as any place, but when it came time
to disconnect power and data cables, HFED wanted the system all to
themselves.

We certainly split our system without bringing down service -- that was a
daily operation.  But I don't consider adding back a processor at 5:00 AM
that was removed at 8:00 PM the previous evening to be an upgrade.

    Edward Rice