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- From: "Richard M. Coffey" <c-crm@math.utah.edu>
- Subject: TECH: Let's do this (create new distributed OS0
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.092200.13132@u.washington.edu>
- Originator: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Washington
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 04:40:59 GMT
- Approved: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu
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- Concerning standards:
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- I agree with the paper idea.
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- I now have changed my views on the size of the data being sent. I
- just read an article about a new network called NREN being funded by
- the federal gov. (to the tune of 5billion dollars, yes, that's 5 with
- nine zeros after it) This came about due to the efforts of my friend
- and yours, Sen. Gore. The network uses fiber optic connections
- instead of the much slower copper ones. According to the article, info
- will be sent across the country at the rate of gigabytes of info in
- seconds.
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- If you're interested it came out of BEYOND COMPUTING May/June 1992,
- pgs. 40 - 44
-
- one final note...
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- Has anyone considered the impact of VR on average-Joe-six-pack in the years
- to come? (besides William Gibson, I haven't seen much interest in the
- psychological impacts) I would be interested in any research going on in
- this direction.
-
- -the richmeister-
- Richard Coffey
- email: c-crm@math.utah.edu
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-
- P.S. A couple of things just popped into my one neuron...
- Maybe Disney will come out with a new TRON!
- Maybe we'll start seeing massively parallel processing machines on
- our desktops!
- Maybe the world will end tomorrow!
-
- "Can't win em all!"
-