IBM Buys Rational for $2.1Billion!

[Kevin D. Clark]

bscott at ntisys.com writes:

>   Okay, I have to ask:  If the system is unplugged, what powers the serial
> command processor and control electronics?  Onboard battery?

Every hardware engineer knows that smoke (not electricity) is really
the thing that runs chips and CPUs.  When the smoke comes out of them,
then they don't work anymore.

The Itanium must have a lot of smoke inside... (-:

--kevin
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