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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:35315 comp.sys.intel:32895 comp.unix.bsd:16343 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8254 comp.unix.sys5.r4:9403 comp.unix.misc:16331 comp.os.linux.development:23949 comp.os.linux.misc:36338 comp.os.386bsd.development:3290 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5585 comp.os.misc:3881 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!tmxbris!stallion.oz.au!stallion.com!uu4news.netcom.com!netcomsv!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tetsuo.communique.net!laitram.com!marksu From: marksu@laitram.com (Mark Sutton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.misc Subject: Re: flat rates for Internet/phone (Re: X on dial-in) Date: 9 Mar 1995 15:33:50 GMT Organization: The Laitram Corporation. Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3jn74u$9p6@earth.laitram.com> References: <D3s19v.4M7@pe1chl.ampr.org> <phrD4JrEA.2ss@netcom.com> <3iqs6r$j5g@vanbc.wimsey.com> <D4oJtF.43L@pe1chl.ampr.org> <3jaca9$pj@zeus.achilles.net> <3jfqpv$nhd@earth.laitram.com> <3jm5ia$2078@tiger1.ocs.lsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: messys.laitram.com mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu (Matthew N. Dodd) wrote: >Mark Sutton (marksu@laitram.com) wrote: >: I would not expect my car to last very long if I ran the engine at redline >: continuously. >Your car is a whole different set of circumstances. Besides, your engine >would probably do quite fine running continuously (with periodic >maintainence) if you ran it in the RPM that it was designed for, rather >than at "the red line". My analogy, where I compared telephone switches to automobiles was VERY VERY lame, and I am embarrassed. My analogy in the same post where I compared such switches' capacities to computer job slots or tasks copacity, however, I stand by. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Mark Sutton | Internet: marksu@laitram.com | | The Laitram Corporation | http://web.page?/I-don't-need-no/ | | New Orleans, Louisiana | +STEENKING/web.page! | ------------------------------------------------------------------------