On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:38:20 -0400, Linonut wrote:
> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> London Stock Exchange trading derailed by computer crash on frenzied day
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>>| Trading on the London Stock Exchange has been halted after a computer system
>>| failed on one of the most frantic days of trading so far this year.
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>>| FTSE 100: trading on the London Stock Exchange halted after computer systems
>>| failed
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>>| In an embarrassment for the LSE, the exchange said that no orders can be
>>| entered or executions of those trades occur. The LSE plans to bring back
>>| trading in a ?controlled way??, but couldn't say how long that will take.
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>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/money/2008/09/08/bcnlse408.xml
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> Link fixed:
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>> http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx
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>> "One hundred per cent reliable on high-volume trading days"
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>> ORLY?
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> No, O'Reilly!
Back in the 80's when I was involved on Wall Street, we used to watch the
SAD displays on IBM 308x / 309x hardware in the glass house command center
sit at 100 percent solid and not move.
AFAIK we never lost a system during that crazy period, even during the
crash of 87.
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
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