On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:38, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:09, scott.marlowe wrote: > > On 29 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 14:00, scott.marlowe wrote: > > > > On 29 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 11:18, scott.marlowe wrote: > > > > > > On 29 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 10:14, Vivek Khera wrote: > > > > > > > > >>>>> "GS" == Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > GS> "scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] [snip] > > I think most of them are running under TPF on a mainframe in a basement > > somewhere, like for airline reservations. I've never worked on one, but > > met one of the guys who runs one, and they use 12 mainframes for 6 live > > machines and each live machine has a failover machine behind it in sysplex > > mode. I kept thinking of the giant dinosaurs in Jurassic park... > > We have something similar running on Alphas and VMS; does about > 8M Txn/day. Anyone who uses E-ZPass in the northeast eventually > gets stuck in our systems.
Oh, forget to mention: yes, they are in a 2-deep basement. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian | | because I hate vegetables!" | | unknown | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
