[extropy-chat] and the nano/holo fun goes on...

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:46:51 -0700 (PDT), Adrian
> Tymes
> <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> > Amusing point: just last week, I completed some
> > contract programming for a startup (so we're not
> > talking billions of dollars), and one of the test
> > conditions for this program was making sure it
> could
> > work with multi-yottabyte disk allocations.
> > 
> > The details of what it was doing with that much
> space
> > are confidential, unfortunately.  
> 
> My guess... you were putting together some trivial
> app for Defense.
> You submitted it on a floppy, but the yottas were
> for the required
> documentation...

Nope.  Private firm (confidentiality enforced by
contract, not by Classified/Secret/Top Secret law),
and the yottas really were for the app itself - sans
documentation - to manage.