South Park Turns to Xserve for Storage Upgrade

Lam1969 writes "Computerworld reports that South Park producers are turning away from digital linear tape and direct-attached disk storage to a linear tape open setup complimented by Xserve RAID disk arrays. The show's creators never thought South Park would last nine seasons, so a storage hardware upgrade was necessary. J.J. Franzen, technology supervisor at South Park Studios in Los Angeles, says he chose Apple hardware based on a "gut" feeling. From the article: 'While South Park may appear technologically amateurish with its character cutouts, over the past nine seasons the cartoon series has added a great deal of storage-consuming detail, including backgrounds and crowd shots that can take up to 100MB of memory each.'"

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Re:Interview with JJ Franzen

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S: It took me a day or two to lay down the basic architecture, the design of it, and then it was a few weeks of hacking. Its about 10 to 15 thousand lines of code.
JJ: Its all in PERL script, so its pretty straightforward.

As a Python guy this sort of thing makes me laugh ;)