Am 14.08.2012 10:35, schrieb Invisible:
>>> 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?

The claim was about hundreds of GB, not TB. It sure as hell wasn't 
available for a dollar and a dime. But it was /possible/ and could be 
obtained... for money.

Why on earth would a company (or government-funded institution for that 
matter) spend even a single /penny/ to pimp their equipment beyond what 
they actually /need/?

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