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- From: drew@caesar.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: Brakes
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.174858.3321@colorado.edu>
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <1992Aug31.074111.14570@colorado.edu> <1992Aug31.130938.4234@mlb.semi.harris.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:48:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.130938.4234@mlb.semi.harris.com> jws@billy.mlb.semi.harris.com (James W. Swonger) writes:
- > An advantage of -not- connecting the two master cylinders in parallel and then
-
- > As far as loss of braking power with altitude, if you have a vacuum booster
- >(power brakes) you will see a drop in vacuum at altitude because the ambient
- >pressure is lower. If your brakes are marginal you'll see it then. Your idle
- >vacuum may be even lower than normal due to (a) and the mixture error also
- >due to (a) can drop it even more.
-
- That would only affect effort required - but there aren't power
- brakes so that isn't it. What I mean is that with the pedal all the
- way to the floor, pumping to get out air, etc. the brakes worked
- marginally.
- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
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