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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: news.misc,comp.misc,news.admin.misc,alt.folklore.computers,misc.misc
- Subject: Re: How is the Net financed and what does it cost?
- Message-ID: <1dhc62INN2de@chnews.intel.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 21:24:18 GMT
- References: <1d6oulINN20l@early-bird.think.com> <1992Nov4.181923.26835@wixer.cactus.org> <1992Nov6.183312.3827@amgen.com>
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- In article <1992Nov6.183312.3827@amgen.com> chriss@sam.amgen.com (Chris Silvester) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov4.181923.26835@wixer.cactus.org>, rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo) writes:
- >> i.e. that 100MB you're using up is 1/104th of the total usefulness of
- >> the uber-drive's lifetime; assuming that you use up 100MB of a uber-drive,
- >
- >I don't know the specifics of the net, but you're logic seems sound. One
- >point you fail to mention though...if everyone in the world starts posting
- >lots of meaningless articles simply because it's cheap to do so, the combined
- >cost would quickly become quite significant...
-
- Heh. You've seen alt.binaries.*, then, have you?
-
- BTW, there's at least one UNIX(TM) variant (i.e. AIX) that
- reports memory utilization (see getresources(3)) in units
- of KB*s (kilobyte-seconds) rather than kilobytes.
-
- --Blair
- "Thinking in terms
- of nerd-weeks..."
-