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From: kasten@europa.interlan.COM (Frank Kastenholz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Network Temperature Protocol
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Date: 23 Jul 90 12:42:42 GMT
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 > From tcp-ip-RELAY@NIC.DDN.MIL Mon Jul 23 07:55:00 1990
 > From: Mills@udel.edu
 > To: Jon Crowcroft <J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
 > Cc: tcp-ip@nic.ddn.mil, discussion@cs.ucl.ac.uk
 > Subject:  Re:  Network Temperature Protocol
 > 
 > jon,
 > <stuff deleted>
 >
 > You will need other
 > volunteers who agree to chime NTP and operate their workstation in ambient
 > environmental conditions.
 > 
 > We should expect objections and very little data from McMurdo Station. Heck,
 > you can expect objections from Delaware.
 > 
 > Dave
 > 
Dave,

I'm afraid that your scheme probably won't work in New England (about 20 Miles
West of Boston) in the summer. The machines would need to be sealed against
humidity and other gunk in the "Ambient Environment" (I wonder what ozone, water, and
various unburned and partially burned hydrocarbons would do to the insides of
a Sparcstation?:-(. You would then have to pump cooled air into the machine so
that it doesn't melt from the heat, defeating the whole purpose of the scheme.

Of course, even if the machine could stand the outside, I doubt that the person
sitting at the keyboard could - unless s/he is a chain-smoking sauna freak.

Air Conditioning-ly Yours
Frank Kastenholz
Racal Interlan