On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:53:46 +0200, Howard Stearns wrote:

> Imagine that a magic fairy comes and creates a system that works exactly  
> as you prescribe.
>      Now, how will you or your users guess that 64MB RAM / 100MB disk /  
> 100MB traffic/day is appropriate for one application, while others use  
> different figures?

Would you say that the above is any different from a single computer  
system with exactly the capacity limits you gave? If so, mind to explain?

BTW: in ancient (computer age) times we had to implement contingency  
systems (sometimes mistakenly called accounting systems) because there was  
only one computer for 1,000's of users, like for example here:

- http://www.unibw.de/

on a B7800/B7900, the successor of the B5000.

/Klaus