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From: craig@NNSC.NSF.NET
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Subject: re: Network Temperature Protocol
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Date: 26 Jul 90 12:11:37 GMT
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> A little known fact is that
> for some years anybody could TELNET to a magic port on one of my
> machines (dcn6) and watch the weather flow (translated to ASCII, of course).

Dave:
    
I've had this fantasy for about two years now that I'd someday convince
someone to take this sort of weather info (or perhaps satellite weather data
which some sites make available) and combine it with the MERIT geography
server, and allow me, on my bitmapped workstation, to pull up the current
weather map for some part of the country on my workstation screen.

Thus:
	
	csh% weather Princeton

would cause a weather map for the Princeton NJ area to appear on my screen
(and would have allowed me to diagnose that JvNC was down on Tuesday due
to thunderstorms causing power problems).

I mean, what are all this nifty data and these bitmap displays for except 
drawing useful pictures?

Craig