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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: big, fast, etc, was is Vax addressing sane today
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 09:42:00 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:50:15 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> Ten years ago Visa could process 56,000 messages/second.

That maybe sounds better than it is. After all, most of those transactions 
would tend to be geographically localized.