On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:24:27AM -0800, Gill, Kathy wrote:
> So, do you want the phone company to provide ISP service and cable, too?
Once upon a time -- just a few years ago -- I did a short-term
consulting job for one of the baby Bells. The job was to install
the OS on a number of workstations destined to run certain applications
in a department whose concern was detecting, tracking, and dealing with
service outages caused by local switch failures. So, in other words,
if a storm knocked a tree onto the switch in East West Northbury, somebody's
screen would light up, a repair team would be dispatched, etc.
All well and good. Very nice. However, I was surprised to find that
each work area -- which was clearly designed to be inhabited by one
person -- had two workstations allocated to it.
When I asked if perhaps the second was to be a hot spare for the first
(the first possibility that came to mind) they explained no, that wasn't
it...see, they had to run *two* applications and so they needed two machines.
It took me a while to figure out that they were serious....but yes, they
were. Their crack in-house applications development staff had decided
that it was too difficult to figure out how to get applications to co-exist
on the same system, so therefore they required separate machines for each.
I'm still stunned when I think about it now. I can't help but wonder
what they'd do if it became necessary to run four or six apps.
The good news is that I'm pleasantly surprised whenever I pick up
the phone and hear a dial tone -- it tells me that the crack applications
development team hasn't gotten their hands on it yet.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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