>> 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

> 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?

It wasn't /that/ mission-critical. It was only their fault-reporting 
database, not one of the actual call routine systems or anything like that.

Still, if it's as trivial as you claim to have multiple TB of RAM back 
in 1995, why didn't they do that?

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