[rescue] Mac Appliance

[Ken Hansen]

Funny story - Remember MCI Friends & Families program, reduced rates for
calling certain numbers (your friends and families)? Well, when that program
rolled out, it was managed on a 486 Comaq desktop computer...

I can only assume that machine was running windows (mid 80's)...

The "trick" to making this work on such a low-end machine, is that the
processing is done "off-line", after the call completes but *before* the
bill is cut...

This went on for a few months, but was certainly a stop-gap effort. Seems
the marketing department raced ahead of engineering...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Mac Appliance


> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:42:10AM -0400, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> > Would you trust Windows to run your telco switch? Neither does
> > the telco.
>
> Uhm, I *work* for a telco, a Baby Bell, as my "day job".  You'd be scared
to
> see the number of NT4/Win2K boxes here.  Only the number of UNIX machines
> makes up for it. 8-)
>
> I've also got a rackmount 486 box (in a custom-made blue and white
> case) that has Win 3.11 on it, and some switch control software...
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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