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Article #2537Re: CompuServe backlog; mail servers (LONG)
From: Lyle Seaman
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 1990 20:50
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 1990 20:50
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mrm@sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes: >I heard this as "the fastest way to deliver data across the country is to fill >a truck with magtapes and drive it" in the early 1970s. Is it worth calculating >to see if this might be the case? I think it was Tom Reidel that said it. Well, if we update the example a bit, at 16 Gigabytes/pound for optical disks, a one-ton pickup truck full crossing the country in three days has a bandwidth of 126 MBytes/sec. Which is pretty good, but the delay is awful. Do you know how long it takes to write 32 Terabytes of data? (Actually, the cost isn't too bad either.) -- Lyle Wang lws@capybara.comm.wang.com 508 967 2322 Lowell, MA, USA Source code: the _ultimate_ documentation.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wang!comm.wang.com!lws From: lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: CompuServe backlog; mail servers (LONG) Message-ID: <1990Dec28.205035.11178@comm.wang.com> Date: 28 Dec 90 20:50:35 GMT References: <1990Dec13.235726.563@jpradley.jpr.com> <KARL.90Dec17233700@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1990Dec19.150853.10463@sceard.Sceard.COM> Organization: Wang Labs, Platform Comms. Lines: 15