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From: howeird@hpspdra.HP.COM (Howard Stateman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Good nontechnical bits/item example wanted
Message-ID: <12710015@hpspdra.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 91 17:30:02 GMT
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Organization: HP Intelligent Networks Operation
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krol@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Krol) writes:
>I am looking for some examples which I can use in a talk to non
>techies to illustrate transmissions speeds.  So what I am looking
>for is how many bytes are in the bible, or in the encyclopedia britianica
>or the sunday new york times....

When I give this kind of talk, I usually start by saying that, in round
numbers, it takes about 10 bits for every character, and your typical
typed sheet has 80 characters per line, 66 lines per page. That's 52,800
bits per page...


Howard Stateman  
Systems Support Engineer  Telnet (415) 857-3817
Intelligent Networks Operation, Palo Alto 
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