[LMB] AKICOTL: Technical question OT:

[Mandos Mitchinson]

> I think that at the time XP was being written, its limits 
> were considered to be huge amounts of overkill.  
> Unfortunately, technology overtook the limitations of the OS 
> long before anyone expected.

I remember when I bought my first PC, a P200 with a 6G HD. Everyone I knew
mocked me for getting such a big drive because there was no use for it and
'it would never be filled'. 

Three days after I bought it the big news on the Web was this new audio
codec called mp3 and everyone stopped laughing :-) 

In IT there is no such thing as overkill just a lack of financial viability.


Mandos
(Who now has around 4TB in his home machine and his original 6G is still in
use somewhere)
/s