17 Dec
2005
17 Dec
'05
7:58 p.m.
The naiive side of me decided that companies based in
older buildings
wouldn't need the power of a VAX 9000, but I've only been a tourist in NYC
so I'm fully prepared to be scoffed at :)
SCOFF SCOFF.
Quite a lot of the larger buildings in NYC have entire floors crammed with
computers and datacom gear - sometimes in the strangest places, hidden
from view. For a while, I damn near lived at 60 Hudson
St., as well as
1155 A of the As).
The buildings are not actually the problem. It is not a huge engineering
task to get cables and pipes running from point A to point B - many of the
older building were designed with some foresight, so there are trunks and
risers in strategic locations. Perhaps these passageways were originally
for the use (and expansion) of older systems - telegraph, pneumatic tube,
and so forth - but they handle fibre and pipe quite well.
The problem is all the arm twisting (often involving money) that one needs
to do to get ANYTHING to happen at the NYC sites.
My contact had their uptime at 24 days max, but
perhaps that was a UK bad
machine!
Or was that 24 days between ECOs?
Apparently the 9000s should have stayed in the oven quite a bit longer.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org