In article s952.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:

True. That would avoid blivot making.

In article <6hfpo2hc4oj9unop0r38rigrl9ogtuv3hd@4ax.com>,
Dave Garland wizinfo.com> wrote:

Books on microwave cooking and sewer design, eh? Sorry about that it
just jump out at me.

In article s952.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:

This is related to the adage "Never sell your used computer to a friend,
for at least one of you will think himself cheated."

jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:

I think not. My mother just got her first computer and is online for
the first time in her life, with OS X. Bit god, I don't think so? My
daughter loves OS X; after her school put MacBooks in their classrooms
she decided to start saving for one of her own. I don't understand your
objection. It's a UNIX based system with which ordinary mortals can
easily do whatever they want with a computer, and most importantly,
without giving their banking passwords away :)

while the arpanet 1jan83 switch-over to internetworking protocol was
somewhat the technology basis for the internet, the operational basis
for the modern internet (large scale internetworking and
internetworking backbone) would be NSFNET.

references here
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm#nsfnet
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietf.htm#history

the pre-1jan83 infrastructure failed to scaleup very well
... especially compared to the internal corporate network
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet

with issues like needing to perform syncronized, system-wide
network node maint
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#10 Arpa address
and continuing "high-rate" of growth, expecting to reach 100 nodes by
1jan83 (from arpanet newsletter) at a point when the internal network
was approaching 1000 nodes
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#7 Was FORTRAN buggy?
recent post discussing some of the issues
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#8 vmshare

Toyota set to lift crown from GM
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/22/business/toyota.php

from above:

TOKYO: Toyota Motor said Friday that it planned to sell 9.34 million
vehicles next year, a figure that analysts said would be big enough to
put it ahead of the troubled General Motors as the world's largest
auto company.

... snip ...

sort of an update on past threads this year in a.f.c. mentioning us
automobile industry
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#23 auto industry
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#43 Sprint backs out of IBM outsourcing deal
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#44 IBM 610 workstation computer
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#20 The Pankian Metaphor
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#49 The Pankian Metaphor (redux)

In article s952.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
aol.com> wrote:

snip re dangerous things--

indeed, i would prefer it that way.
when i am doing possibly foolish and dangerous things, i hate to
be interrupted

i recall a setup for an experiment where some of the last things done
before beginning a (perhaps multiweek) run were

a)check shielded room integrity (20'x20'x10' Faraday cage with all
modern conveniences, hot and cold running helium, nitrogen, water,
air and vacuum, filtered power, isolated grounding complete with
prominent signage assuring the fire marshal that yes, this is
approved and correct and signed off on, so please dont fuck with it)

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We would like to invite you all to join a new Tom Swift discussion list,
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jmfbahciv@aol.com writes:

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#19 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#27 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?

for some, possibly as important as various compute-bound stuff is a
lot of the business critical dataprocessing (things like payroll,
contracts, disbursements, etc)

there was news article in the last couple months about DFAS, after
having been temporarily relocated to Phili (from new orleans in the
wake of the hurricane/flood) is now being moved to denver.

DFAS home page
http://www.dod.mil/dfas/

jmfbahciv@aol.com writes:

i've told before the scenario of air-bearing simulation as part of
floating head disk design (that came out in 3380 disks)

sjr had a 370/195 running mvt for batch jobs ... job queue backlog
could be several weeks.

i've also mentioned somebody at palo alto science center getting turn
around ever 2-3 months. palo alto science center had 370/145 for vm
timesharing. they basically configured their job for background
running on vm (soak up spare cycles mostly offshift and
weekends). they found that they would get slightly more computation in
three month period out of their 370/145 background than the
turn-around on the sjr 370/195 (370/195 was peak around 10mips for
appropriately tuned computational jobs ... compared to around 300kips
for 370/145).