the 486 had just come in and was operating on Windows 3.1
Why do you think the Telstra share price collapsed? They own old and slow technology. Telstra shares were sold to techno-peasants - the gullible by governments who knew exactly what they were doing - they had to dump the company because its main asset was worthless.
Parliament is not that stupid. You cannot connect up Australia for $5B - that is fantasy land stuff.
