On 8/13/2012 9:09, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> 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

I don't know. AT&T had five major databases (and bunches of minor ones) the 
smallest of which was 300TB.

EDS (the mainframe room I'm talking about) processes pretty much every 
credit card in the USA and many internationally. So, yes.

How many power companies did BT get their power from? Was it 
mission-critical enough that if one of the power plants exploded, they'd 
still be online?

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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