Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I think the "real" difference between a desktop and a server is probably 
> fault-tolerance. 

Yep. And when downtime starts costing you thousands of dollars per second, 
you start doing things like having two independent entirely separate power 
companies supplying the power to your building, along with several 
independent ways of getting to your networks, including both satellite and 
land lines, as well as several leased lines guaranteed not to be in physical 
proximity and terminated in different states.

Now, maybe a large bomb in the building or an airliner crashing into it 
would have taken it out, so they're probably behind the times compared to 
(say) google, but it was pretty impressive for 20 years ago.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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