Re: big, fast, etc, was is Vax addressing sane today

In article <20240913122217.00002a21@yahoo.com>,
already5chosen@yahoo.com (Michael S) wrote:
 

How many transactions per minute does world's biggest company need
at peak hours?  

 
One very painful case is credit card spending in the run-up to major
holidays, such as Christmas, where the credit card companies feel the
need for central authorisation of all transactions to reduce fraud.
Fraud is, naturally, at its peak at these times. The price of wrongly
refused transactions is also high, because it means customers march
out of shops, having wasted retail staff time.
 

Is not this number small relatively to capabilities of even 15 y.o.
dual-Xeon server with few dozens of spinning rust disks? 

 
This does not seem to be the case.
 
John