> On 14.05.2002 at 06:00:13, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I discovered the disk drives can be on opposite sides of the world if you > > like, so long as you have the network capacity. > > With Gigabit Ethernet (and faster) becoming more widely available, this kind of > facility will become more feasible.
Only for limited uses. Latency is the chief limiter for many applications and the speed of light actually gets to be annoyingly slow
