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From: jsm@ss01.pppl.gov (John Scott McCauley Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Network Temperature Protocol
Message-ID: <534@ss01.pppl.gov>
Date: 21 Jul 90 03:52:21 GMT
References: <9007210040.AA28109@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: jsm@ss01.pppl.gov (John Scott McCauley Jr.)
Organization: Princeton University, Plasma Physics Laboratory
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In article <9007210040.AA28109@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> J.Crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Jon Crowcroft) writes:
>
>As part of a distributed computing experiment, we are considering
>setting up a Sun workstation, with a bi-metallic strip and small coil
>tempearture device, and providing a network wide reading, combined
>with time of day service and cartesian location data.
>

What ever happened to 'finger weather@hermes.ai.mit.edu'?
This reported the wind speed and temperature at the top of Tech^2,
at MIT. There was also 'finger coke@a.cmu.edu' which reported the
status of a coke machine at CMU.

	Scott

P.S. Don't come here -- some things here are hotter than 30 keV.