On 13/08/2012 03:54 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 8/12/2012 13:35, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> The only problem with that, of course, is that paging is controlled by
>> the
>> operating system, not by a user-level application program.
>
> Not in this system. I believe Linux now has a hack in it that lets you
> get first dibs on page faults.

Hmm, OK.

>> And you're claiming you had 100x more than that IN RAM? Somehow, I
>> doubt it.
>
> Yep. And the room the box was in was full of mainframes, including three
> tape carousels that held 2.5TB each. You've just never worked for a
> company with enough money to buy stuff.

So you're saying that the fact that British Telecom plc could only 
afford 25.2GB of spinning disk for a mission-critical system means that 
they're "not big enough" to play with the Big Boys? :-P

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