RISC-V gets a feature that may prove integral to future server and enterprise implementations
  • frezik@midwest.social
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    10 months ago

    Yes. Server boot times are long. Enterprise level NICs and hard drive controllers do a lot of checking at startup.

    Historically, there were Sun servers that could hot swap CPUs. X86 can’t do that, though.

    • psvrh@lemmy.ca
      1·
      10 months ago

      Many that weren’t based on x86 microcompters could do this: Tandem, I mean, Compaq, I mean HP NonStop machines, Sun Ultra Enterprise as you mentioned, IBM s390 and System-Z, several HPUX systems, I’m sure there’s others.