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RE: [TCLUG:17072] Rebuttal





>Hm.. 'fraid not. :)  I know a pair of people (who will likely be laughing
at
>this message by the time they read it) who decided the secondary interface
>on an ISA-based 486 was no longer needed.  While people were using the
>machine, they took the interface down, opened the box up, and just yanked
>the card.   No poof.  No system failure.  Not even as much as an unclaimed
>interrupt. :)

You have no idea what kind of stuff a cocky sysadmin who pays 100K/year for
4 hour onsite hardware replacement support can pull with production UNIX
servers and still keep them running.

I refuse to say more. 

Jer