Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified

Re:Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified by twodayrice on Thursday October 14, 2021 @08:54AM (#28863595)

I worked as an electronic tech back repairing 4/5ESS switches. Those things were built like tanks.

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Re:Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified by dave333 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:22AM (#28863889)

I worked on the systems used to implement various switches such as #4ESS and #5ESS and the goal was less than 2 hours downtime in 40 years which means you can't even reboot and have to upgrade software method by method on the fly. Needless to say 40 years later the average smartphone is about 1000x more powerful than those switches.

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Re:Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified by jbledsoe2112 on Friday October 15, 2021 @06:38AM (#28876302)

Oh nice! Did you ever work on crossbar switches?

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