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Or an endless line of Spectre/Meltdown patches needing the hosts to reboot in order to get this weeks firmware into the intel CPUs.

• scurvy 7y ago
  This is what I was getting at. When Sun had issues with CPUs, they sent you new CPU boards and you could hot swap them live without downtime
  • zorked 7y ago
    That was indeed cool, but it also belongs to the "pet" phase of computing and this is the "cattle" age.
    • scurvy 7y ago
      Not really. It was done at scale, too. Hotmail replaced all of the faulty CPUs live.