Re: Cray 1?

Article View: comp.sys.super

Article #67

#67

From: Robert Hyatt
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 02:16

25 lines
1535 bytes

In article <6683@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> liebgold@turing.seas.ucla.edu (Dan M. Liebgold) writes:
>In article <1992Apr9.153046.11372@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman) writes:
>>In article <s103nINNs5u@agate.berkeley.edu> rsr@ocf.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport) writes:
>>>
>>>The thing is a monster.  Weighs around 500-600 pounds, 5" high, 3" wide, 2"
>>>deep.
>>
>>At 600 pounds with those dimensions, it would have a density of 20 pounds
>>per cubic inch. This seems a little on the high side.  :-)
>>
>
>don't you mean 20 pounds per cubic FOOT? Not quite as impressive, but still
>dense.
>
>--

Nah.  He was playing on the obvious typo of 5 inches by 3 inches by 2 inches,
when, in fact, the ' character and not the " character was called for to
indicate feet.  the 5"x3"x2" is way less than a cubic foot (30 cubic inches
to be precise)


-- 
!Robert Hyatt                    Computer and Information Sciences   !
!hyatt@cis.uab.edu               University of Alabama at Birmingham !

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1992Apr13.021623.9137@cis.uab.edu>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!rpi!gatech!willis.cis.uab.edu!hyatt

References: <s103nINNs5u@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Apr9.153046.11372@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <6683@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!rpi!gatech!willis.cis.uab.edu!hyatt
From: hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt)
Subject: Re: Cray 1?
Message-ID: <1992Apr13.021623.9137@cis.uab.edu>
Sender: root@cis.uab.edu (Bruce Williams)
Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
References: <s103nINNs5u@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Apr9.153046.11372@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <6683@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 02:16:23 GMT
Lines: 25

Reply to Parent Message