Rapid once deployed too

[Fairlight]

Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Mike Schwartz (PC Support) been jivin' 'bout like:
>      I believe it was a Pentium 450 with 768 megs of Ram and a Raid-5 array
> with 18-Gig SCSI drives.  It used to really bog down with 250 users hitting
> it with filePro web requests.  Some transactions like "show me all the
> invoicing detail for customer xyz for the past 18 months" were taking over 5
> minutes to do all the lookups and return the data to a Unix command line
> (not including web transfer or display time.)  Now these requests process so
> fast (just a couple of seconds) that I can't get accurate timings on them,
> but it's around a factor of 100.  I'm sure some of this is due to the new
> SAN disk array that has it's own huge cache RAM.      

Okay, given those numbers, I believe.  Nice improvement.  :)

I've enjoyed the increase in tech too.  I remember being on the leading
edge of mp3 encoding--when encoding ONE song took like 45min.  Now i can do
a whole CD in under 10min.

Ah, modern equipment...

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