I think it's supposed to be an April Fool's joke.  Note the posting
date (April 01), the author (http://www.funy.org/), and the mention of 
sacrificing a goat to the SCSI gods...

Joel

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:18:44 Bob Tanner wrote:
>
> Quoting Thomas T. Veldhouse (veldy at veldy.net):
> > http://slashdot.org/articles/01/04/02/0326237.shtml
> >
> 
> What where they running before?