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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Killer Micros and vectorized code
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Date: 20 Mar 90 20:58:34 GMT
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In article <798@dgis.dtic.dla.mil> jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon) writes:
>This is quite correct, and therefore we should stop using personal
>automobiles, too.  Instead we should use taxis, car pools, and
>other forms of better sharing the same basic hardware.  This will
>increase the <10% utilization of most cars.

If you will follow transportation debate, you will find that there are
many voices agreeing with your strawman.  The difference is that, unlike
in the computing world, the networking, connectivity and flexibility of
mass transportation is unsatisfactory in most areas.
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